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ALSA-2022:7811

Vulnerability from osv_almalinux – Published: 2022-11-08 00:00 – Updated: 2022-11-11 19:37 – Source website
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Summary
Important: mingw-expat security update
Details

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents. The mingw-expat packages provide a port of the Expat library for MinGW.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: mingw-expat (2.4.8). (BZ#2057023, BZ#2057037, BZ#2057127)

Security Fix(es):

  • expat: Malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25235)
  • expat: Namespace-separator characters in "xmlns[:prefix]" attribute values can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25236)
  • expat: Integer overflow in storeRawNames() (CVE-2022-25315)
  • expat: Stack exhaustion in doctype parsing (CVE-2022-25313)
  • expat: Integer overflow in copyString() (CVE-2022-25314)
  • expat: Integer overflow in the doProlog function (CVE-2022-23990)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

References
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  "id": "ALSA-2022:7811",
  "modified": "2022-11-11T19:37:34Z",
  "published": "2022-11-08T00:00:00Z",
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-25315"
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    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2048356"
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    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2056350"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2056354"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2056363"
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    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2056366"
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2056370"
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  "summary": "Important: mingw-expat security update"
}



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