RHSA-2020:1011 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: expat security update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · April 1, 2020

Updated · June 27, 2026

Topic

An update for expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents.

Security Fix(es):

  • expat: Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in XML_GetBuffer() (CVE-2015-2716)

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 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2020:1011 — Red Hat Security Advisory: expat security update | PulseLinux