RHSA-2022:6833 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: expat security update

Loading…

Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · October 6, 2022

Updated · October 9, 2026

Topic

An update for expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

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.

Description

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents.

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2022:6833 — Red Hat Security Advisory: expat security update | PulseLinux