RedHat: RHSA-2023-3068:01 Important: mingw-expat security update
Summary
Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents. The mingw-expat packages
provide a port of the Expat library for MinGW.
Security Fix(es):
* expat: a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c
(CVE-2022-40674)
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 Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 8.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Summary
Solution
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40674 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.8_release_notes/index
Package List
Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8):
Source:
mingw-expat-2.4.8-2.el8.src.rpm
noarch:
mingw32-expat-2.4.8-2.el8.noarch.rpm
mingw32-expat-debuginfo-2.4.8-2.el8.noarch.rpm
mingw64-expat-2.4.8-2.el8.noarch.rpm
mingw64-expat-debuginfo-2.4.8-2.el8.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
Topic
An update for mingw-expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Topic
Relevant Releases Architectures
Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8) - noarch
Bugs Fixed
2130769 - CVE-2022-40674 expat: a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c
