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Red Hat 7.7: RHSA-2020-2508-01 Moderate: Expat Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey June 10, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A new patch for expat on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 resolves a moderate vulnerability concerning buffer overflow.
An update for expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Extended Update Support

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing the updated packages, applications using the Expat library must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Summary

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents.
Security Fix(es):
* expat: Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in XML_GetBuffer() (CVE-2015-2716)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat buffer overflow security fix moderate severity xml parser expat

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2716 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.7):
Source: expat-2.1.0-11.el7_7.src.rpm
x86_64: expat-2.1.0-11.el7_7.i686.rpm expat-2.1.0-11.el7_7.x86_64.rpm expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-11.el7_7.i686.rpm expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-11.el7_7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.7):
x86_64: expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-11.el7_7.i686.rpm expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-11.el7_7.x86_64.rpm expat-devel-2.1.0-11.el7_7.i686.rpm expat-devel-2.1.0-11.el7_7.x86_64.rpm expat-static-2.1.0-11.el7_7.i686.rpm expat-static-2.1.0-11.el7_7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7):
Source: expat-2.1.0-11.el7_7.src.rpm
ppc64: expat-2.1.0-11.el7_7.ppc.rpm expat-2.1.0-11.el7_7.ppc64.rpm expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-11.el7_7.ppc.rpm expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-11.el7_7.ppc64.rpm expat-devel-2.1.0-11.el7_7.ppc.rpm expat-devel-2.1.0-11.el7_7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: expat-2.1.0-11.el7_7.ppc64le.rpm expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-11.el7_7.ppc64le.rpm expat-devel-2.1.0-11.el7_7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: expat-2.1.0-11.el7_7.s390.rpm expat-2.1.0-11.el7_7.s390x.rpm expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-11.el7_7.s390.rpm expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-11.el7_7.s390x.rpm expat-devel-2.1.0-11.el7_7.s390.rpm expat-devel-2.1.0-11.el7_7.s390x.rpm
x86_64: expat-2.1.0-11.el7_7.i686.rpm expat-2.1.0-11.el7_7.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:2508-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2508
Issue date: 2020-06-10

Topic

An update for expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7Extended Update Support.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat buffer overflow security fix moderate severity xml parser expat

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1220607 - CVE-2015-2716 expat: Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in XML_GetBuffer()

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