RHSA-2023:3068 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: mingw-expat security update
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ImportantRed Hat Product Security
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Official CSAF product identity
Published · May 16, 2023
Updated · October 9, 2026
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 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. 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.