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RHSA-2023:3068 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: mingw-expat security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2023:3068 — Red Hat Security Advisory: mingw-expat security update | PulseLinux