RHSA-2022:5314 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: expat security update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · July 1, 2022

Updated · November 2, 2026

Topic

An update for expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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: stack exhaustion in doctype parsing (CVE-2022-25313)

  • expat: integer overflow in copyString() (CVE-2022-25314)

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2022:5314 — Red Hat Security Advisory: expat security update | PulseLinux