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Fedora 40 mingw-expat: 2024-cdde5c873d critical: DoS via XML_ResumeParser

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Calendar Grey November 19, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora's mingw-libxml2 has been upgraded to 2.9.10, incorporating a crucial patch that resolves a severe security vulnerability for enhanced reliability.
Update to 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:

Update to 2.6.4. Backport fix for CVE-2024-50602.

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Change Log

* Sat Nov 9 2024 Sandro Mani - 2.6.4-1 - Update to 2.6.4 * Tue Nov 5 2024 Sandro Mani - 2.6.3-2 - Backport patch for CVE-2024-50602

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2322195 - CVE-2024-50602 mingw-expat: DoS via XML_ResumeParser [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2322195 [ 2 ] Bug #2322230 - CVE-2024-50602 mingw-expat: DoS via XML_ResumeParser [fedora-39] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2322230

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-cdde5c873d' 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: mingw-expat
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 2.6.4
Release: 1.fc40
URL: http://www.libexpat.org/
Summary: MinGW Windows port of expat XML parser library

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