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Fedora 38 mingw-expat Update 2.6.1 Critical Fix for XML Parsing

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Calendar Grey March 19, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The 2.6.1 release of mingw-expat in Fedora 38 tackles CVE-2024-28757 to enhance the safety of XML parsing.
Update to 2.6.1, backport fix for CVE-2024-28757.

Summary

This is expat, the C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark. Expat

is a stream oriented XML parser. This means that you register handlers with

the parser prior to starting the parse. These handlers are called when the

parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parsed. A

start tag is an example of the kind of structures for which you may

register handlers.

Update Information:

Update to 2.6.1, backport fix for CVE-2024-28757.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora XML parser mingw-expat CVE-2024-28757

Change Log

* Sun Mar 10 2024 Sandro Mani - 2.6.1-1 - Update to 2.6.1

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2268768 - TRIAGE CVE-2024-28757 mingw-expat: libexpat: XML Entity Expansion [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2268768

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-40b98c9ced' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: mingw-expat
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 2.6.1
Release: 1.fc38
URL: http://www.libexpat.org/
Summary: MinGW Windows port of expat XML parser library

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora XML parser mingw-expat CVE-2024-28757

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