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openSUSE Leap 15.3: 2022:0498-1 Critical: Expat Integer Overflow

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Calendar Grey February 18, 2022
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An essential security patch for openSUSE resolves integer overflow vulnerabilities within expat. Prompt attention needed.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for expat fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2022-23852: Fixed signed integer overflow in XML_GetBuffer

(bsc#1195054).

- CVE-2022-23990: Fixed integer overflow in the doProlog function

(bsc#1195217).

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2022-498=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

expat-2.2.5-3.12.1

expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-3.12.1

expat-debugsource-2.2.5-3.12.1

libexpat-devel-2.2.5-3.12.1

libexpat1-2.2.5-3.12.1

libexpat1-debuginfo-2.2.5-3.12.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (x86_64):

expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.2.5-3.12.1

libexpat-devel-32bit-2.2.5-3.12.1

libexpat1-32bit-2.2.5-3.12.1

libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.2.5-3.12.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-23852.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-23990.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1195054

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1195217

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2022:0498-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 .

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