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====================================================================                   Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:          Moderate: mingw-expat security update
Advisory ID:       RHSA-2020:4846-01
Product:           Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:      https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4846
Issue date:        2020-11-03
CVE Names:         CVE-2018-20843 
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1. Summary:

An update for mingw-expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - noarch

3. Description:

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents. The mingw-expat packages
provide a port of the Expat library for MinGW. 

Security Fix(es):

* expat: large number of colons in input makes parser consume high amount
of resources, leading to DoS (CVE-2018-20843)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

4. 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

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1723723 - CVE-2018-20843 expat: large number of colons in input makes parser consume high amount of resources, leading to DoS

6. Package List:

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8):

Source:
mingw-expat-2.2.4-5.el8.src.rpm

noarch:
mingw32-expat-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm
mingw32-expat-debuginfo-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm
mingw64-expat-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm
mingw64-expat-debuginfo-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security.  Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20843
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2020 Red Hat, Inc.
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RedHat: RHSA-2020-4846:01 Moderate: mingw-expat security update

An update for mingw-expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Summary

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents. The mingw-expat packages provide a port of the Expat library for MinGW.
Security Fix(es):
* expat: large number of colons in input makes parser consume high amount of resources, leading to DoS (CVE-2018-20843)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.



Summary


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

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20843 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8):
Source: mingw-expat-2.2.4-5.el8.src.rpm
noarch: mingw32-expat-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm mingw32-expat-debuginfo-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm mingw64-expat-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm mingw64-expat-debuginfo-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Severity
Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4846-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4846
Issued Date: : 2020-11-03
CVE Names: CVE-2018-20843

Topic

An update for mingw-expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.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.


Topic


 

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - noarch


Bugs Fixed

1723723 - CVE-2018-20843 expat: large number of colons in input makes parser consume high amount of resources, leading to DoS


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