- Issued:
- 2020-11-03
- Updated:
- 2020-11-03
RHSA-2020:4846 - Security Advisory
Synopsis
Moderate: mingw-expat security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Moderate
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
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 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.
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.
Solution
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:
Affected Products
- Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 8 x86_64
- Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 x86_64
- Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 x86_64
- Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 1723723 - CVE-2018-20843 expat: large number of colons in input makes parser consume high amount of resources, leading to DoS
CVEs
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 8
SRPM | |
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mingw-expat-2.2.4-5.el8.src.rpm | SHA-256: cce3997b1c3c27ef6612beb0c9c73e5897e0255229b5d313702cb955c7b340f9 |
x86_64 | |
mingw32-expat-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 2f20cfaca61bd4298593ac29539c69d9dd83deef00d9eb217dd1b0e5efdc6835 |
mingw32-expat-debuginfo-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: a1a4b66aa848a8c28b91b69a97dded18483e0ee6277fcf91b633997359e17d13 |
mingw64-expat-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: db878d568d2aa02faceb13edac3c7725e31077a03f123d16f9e8850ec8b4ff36 |
mingw64-expat-debuginfo-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 3bd24f2ff56006f6109867da921076a58139aefb7de48c573c77f274735e3078 |
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8
SRPM | |
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mingw-expat-2.2.4-5.el8.src.rpm | SHA-256: cce3997b1c3c27ef6612beb0c9c73e5897e0255229b5d313702cb955c7b340f9 |
x86_64 | |
mingw32-expat-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 2f20cfaca61bd4298593ac29539c69d9dd83deef00d9eb217dd1b0e5efdc6835 |
mingw32-expat-debuginfo-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: a1a4b66aa848a8c28b91b69a97dded18483e0ee6277fcf91b633997359e17d13 |
mingw64-expat-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: db878d568d2aa02faceb13edac3c7725e31077a03f123d16f9e8850ec8b4ff36 |
mingw64-expat-debuginfo-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 3bd24f2ff56006f6109867da921076a58139aefb7de48c573c77f274735e3078 |
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.6
SRPM | |
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mingw-expat-2.2.4-5.el8.src.rpm | SHA-256: cce3997b1c3c27ef6612beb0c9c73e5897e0255229b5d313702cb955c7b340f9 |
x86_64 | |
mingw32-expat-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 2f20cfaca61bd4298593ac29539c69d9dd83deef00d9eb217dd1b0e5efdc6835 |
mingw32-expat-debuginfo-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: a1a4b66aa848a8c28b91b69a97dded18483e0ee6277fcf91b633997359e17d13 |
mingw64-expat-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: db878d568d2aa02faceb13edac3c7725e31077a03f123d16f9e8850ec8b4ff36 |
mingw64-expat-debuginfo-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 3bd24f2ff56006f6109867da921076a58139aefb7de48c573c77f274735e3078 |
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.4
SRPM | |
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mingw-expat-2.2.4-5.el8.src.rpm | SHA-256: cce3997b1c3c27ef6612beb0c9c73e5897e0255229b5d313702cb955c7b340f9 |
x86_64 | |
mingw32-expat-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 2f20cfaca61bd4298593ac29539c69d9dd83deef00d9eb217dd1b0e5efdc6835 |
mingw32-expat-debuginfo-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: a1a4b66aa848a8c28b91b69a97dded18483e0ee6277fcf91b633997359e17d13 |
mingw64-expat-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: db878d568d2aa02faceb13edac3c7725e31077a03f123d16f9e8850ec8b4ff36 |
mingw64-expat-debuginfo-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 3bd24f2ff56006f6109867da921076a58139aefb7de48c573c77f274735e3078 |
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