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Mageia 8 MGASA-2022-0048 Moderate: Expat Integer Overflow

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Calendar Grey February 3, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia updates expat packages to address critical vulnerabilities, particularly memory corruption. Users are urged to upgrade to the latest versions for enhanced security.
Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has a signed integer overflow in XML_GetBuffer, for configurations with a nonzero XML_CONTEXT_BYTES

Summary

Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has a signed integer overflow in XML_GetBuffer, for configurations with a nonzero XML_CONTEXT_BYTES. (CVE-2022-23852)
Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has an integer overflow in the doProlog function. (CVE-2022-23990)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29985

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00032.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-23852

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-23990

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update moderate severity integer overflow Expat Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/expat-2.2.10-1.2.mga8

Severity
important
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Critical

Publication date: 03 Feb 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0048.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-23852, CVE-2022-23990

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update moderate severity integer overflow Expat Mageia

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