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alsa-2024:6989

Vulnerability from osv_almalinux

Published

2024-09-24 00:00

Modified

2024-09-24 11:26

Summary

Moderate: expat security update

Details

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents.

Security Fix(es):

libexpat: Negative Length Parsing Vulnerability in libexpat (CVE-2024-45490)
libexpat: Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CVE-2024-45491)
libexpat: integer overflow (CVE-2024-45492)

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.

References

URL

Type

	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6989	ADVISORY
	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45490	REPORT
	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45491	REPORT
	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45492	REPORT
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2308615	REPORT
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2308616	REPORT
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2308617	REPORT
	https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-6989.html	ADVISORY

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  "id": "ALSA-2024:6989",
  "modified": "2024-09-24T11:26:12Z",
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CVE-2024-45491 (GCVE-0-2024-45491)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-30 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 16:15

Summary

An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. dtdCopy in xmlparse.c can have an integer overflow for nDefaultAtts on 32-bit platforms (where UINT_MAX equals SIZE_MAX).

Severity ?

7.3 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/891
	https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/888

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CVE-2024-45492 (GCVE-0-2024-45492)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-30 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 16:15

Summary

An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. nextScaffoldPart in xmlparse.c can have an integer overflow for m_groupSize on 32-bit platforms (where UINT_MAX equals SIZE_MAX).

Severity ?

7.3 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/892
	https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/889

Show details on NVD website

JSON

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CVE-2024-45490 (GCVE-0-2024-45490)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-30 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 16:15

Summary

An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. xmlparse.c does not reject a negative length for XML_ParseBuffer.

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/890
	https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/887

Show details on NVD website

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alsa-2024:6989

Vulnerability from osv_almalinux

CVE-2024-45491 (GCVE-0-2024-45491)

CVE-2024-45492 (GCVE-0-2024-45492)

CVE-2024-45490 (GCVE-0-2024-45490)

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