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Fedora 40 Expat Security Advisory FEDORA-2024-2462a2fc4c Critical Update

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Calendar Grey January 31, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Key enhancements in Fedora 40 concerning the expat XML parser are crucial for ensuring system security and operational integrity.
Rebase to version 2.6.4

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:

Rebase to version 2.6.4

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Topics Covered

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Change Log

* Thu Nov 7 2024 Tomas Korbar - 2.6.4-1 - Rebase to version 2.6.4 - Resolves: CVE-2024-50602

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2024-2462a2fc4c 2025-01-31 03:22:59.299470+00:00 Name : expat Product : Fedora 40 Version : 2.6.4 Release : 1.fc40 URL : https://libexpat.github.io/ Summary : An XML parser library Description : 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 Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-2462a2fc4c' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: expat
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 2.6.4
Release: 1.fc40
URL: https://libexpat.github.io/
Summary: An XML parser library

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Fedora update information XML parser C library expat

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