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Red Hat: RHSA-2022-6921-01 Important: Expat Use-After-Free

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Calendar Grey October 12, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial vulnerability patch released for expatriates utilizing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ELS, classified as important by Red Hat Security Team.
An update for expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle 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: a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-40674)
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 security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux important use-after-free expat XML parsing

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40674 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 ELS):
Source: expat-2.0.1-15.el6_10.src.rpm
i386: expat-2.0.1-15.el6_10.i686.rpm expat-debuginfo-2.0.1-15.el6_10.i686.rpm expat-devel-2.0.1-15.el6_10.i686.rpm
s390x: expat-2.0.1-15.el6_10.s390.rpm expat-2.0.1-15.el6_10.s390x.rpm expat-debuginfo-2.0.1-15.el6_10.s390.rpm expat-debuginfo-2.0.1-15.el6_10.s390x.rpm expat-devel-2.0.1-15.el6_10.s390.rpm expat-devel-2.0.1-15.el6_10.s390x.rpm
x86_64: expat-2.0.1-15.el6_10.i686.rpm expat-2.0.1-15.el6_10.x86_64.rpm expat-debuginfo-2.0.1-15.el6_10.i686.rpm expat-debuginfo-2.0.1-15.el6_10.x86_64.rpm expat-devel-2.0.1-15.el6_10.i686.rpm expat-devel-2.0.1-15.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:6921-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6921
Issue date: 2022-10-12

Topic

An update for expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Extended Lifecycle Support.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux important use-after-free expat XML parsing

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 ELS) - i386, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2130769 - CVE-2022-40674 expat: a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c

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