RHSA-2022:1069 — Security Advisory

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 Important. 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.

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents.

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: Large number of prefixed XML attributes on a single tag can crash libexpat (CVE-2021-45960)

• expat: Integer overflow in doProlog in xmlparse.c (CVE-2021-46143)

• expat: Integer overflow in addBinding in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22822)

• expat: Integer overflow in build_model in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22823)

• expat: Integer overflow in defineAttribute in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22824)

• expat: Integer overflow in lookup in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22825)

• expat: Integer overflow in nextScaffoldPart in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22826)

• expat: Integer overflow in storeAtts in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22827)

• expat: Integer overflow in function XML_GetBuffer (CVE-2022-23852)

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.