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Mageia 8: 2022-0352 Critical: Expat Use-After-Free Issue

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Calendar Grey October 1, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
A recent security patch for Mageia resolves a significant memory management vulnerability linked to libexpat, impacting versions below 2.4.9.
libexpat before 2.4.9 has a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c

Summary

libexpat before 2.4.9 has a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c. (CVE-2022-40674)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30884

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2022/msg00205.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-40674

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical use-after-free mageia libexpat

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/expat-2.2.10-1.5.mga8

Severity
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Publication date: 01 Oct 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0352.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-40674

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical use-after-free mageia libexpat

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