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Gentoo GLSA-201911-08 Normal: Expat Denial of Service Problems

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Calendar Grey November 24, 2019
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Review Gentoo GLSA 201911-08, which highlights several security vulnerabilities within Expat that pose risks to system integrity.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Expat, the worst of which could result in a Denial of Service condition.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Expat. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo software update normal severity expat

Resolution

All Expat users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/expat-2.2.8"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2018-20843 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20843 [ 2 ] CVE-2019-15903 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15903

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201911-08
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: Expat: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: November 25, 2019
Bugs: #688734, #694362
ID: 201911-08

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo software update normal severity expat

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Expat, the worst of which could result in a Denial of Service condition.

Background

Expat is a set of XML parsing libraries.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-libs/expat < 2.2.8 >= 2.2.8

Impact

===== Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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