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Fedora 41: 2024-671549e74c critical: expat XML parser security advisory

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Calendar Grey September 21, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent release of the expat library in Fedora 41 brings forth crucial security enhancements and boosts performance with its version 2.6.3.
Rebase to version 2.6.3

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 2.6.3

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Topics Covered

security advisory update buffer overflow critical Fedora XML parser expat

Change Log

* Thu Sep 5 2024 Tomas Korbar - 2.6.3-1 - Rebase to version 2.6.3 - Resolves: rhbz#2309690 - Resolves: CVE-2024-45492 - Resolves: CVE-2024-45491 - Resolves: CVE-2024-45490

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2309690 - expat-2.6.3 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2309690

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-671549e74c' 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 41
Version: 2.6.3
Release: 1.fc41
URL: https://libexpat.github.io/
Summary: An XML parser library

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update buffer overflow critical Fedora XML parser expat

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