RHSA-2024:6989 — Security Advisory

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.

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents.

Security Fix(es):

• libexpat: Negative Length Parsing Vulnerability in libexpat (CVE-2024-45490)

• libexpat: Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CVE-2024-45491)

• libexpat: integer overflow (CVE-2024-45492)

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.