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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:1309 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2022-04-11
Updated:
2022-04-11

RHSA-2022:1309 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: expat security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

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Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

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Topic

An update for expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.

Security Fix(es):

  • expat: Malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25235)
  • expat: Namespace-separator characters in "xmlns[:prefix]" attribute values can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25236)
  • expat: Integer overflow in storeRawNames() (CVE-2022-25315)

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.

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.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

  • BZ - 2056363 - CVE-2022-25315 expat: Integer overflow in storeRawNames()
  • BZ - 2056366 - CVE-2022-25235 expat: Malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences can lead to arbitrary code execution
  • BZ - 2056370 - CVE-2022-25236 expat: Namespace-separator characters in "xmlns[:prefix]" attribute values can lead to arbitrary code execution

CVEs

  • CVE-2022-25235
  • CVE-2022-25236
  • CVE-2022-25315

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6

SRPM
expat-2.0.1-14.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 2aa0f368ad8e100a1871b5bc8e56a865ec44fe8d9bc11c35632832953f151166
x86_64
expat-2.0.1-14.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: c56fb06edc2b10eb13cf4599b6cd6a7f0599ed36ce1ed2fae80eb4c832b52f4b
expat-2.0.1-14.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5f0a6cdbcbbe06c8aa68a97b50b7165dad35c9fdbf8a62c9fb7e5247a95976ff
expat-debuginfo-2.0.1-14.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: b3bf4411cb7f13a19214b9cbcfba0ad4ffb88c7dc817216503cf3cbefd076f8e
expat-debuginfo-2.0.1-14.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cb448c44a4039ec9504d007bf2d693a2cdc2e7696e5a7d2e5758d948a742c73d
expat-devel-2.0.1-14.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: eddd81be87c172835577f9d7a2590bdf05c41856bad05416943b150b40155add
expat-devel-2.0.1-14.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d1f5f21092c3bc36da7ccd46f8dec08ea244016515d48c2b33d40b54779bbbea
i386
expat-2.0.1-14.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: c56fb06edc2b10eb13cf4599b6cd6a7f0599ed36ce1ed2fae80eb4c832b52f4b
expat-debuginfo-2.0.1-14.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: b3bf4411cb7f13a19214b9cbcfba0ad4ffb88c7dc817216503cf3cbefd076f8e
expat-devel-2.0.1-14.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: eddd81be87c172835577f9d7a2590bdf05c41856bad05416943b150b40155add

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6

SRPM
expat-2.0.1-14.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 2aa0f368ad8e100a1871b5bc8e56a865ec44fe8d9bc11c35632832953f151166
s390x
expat-2.0.1-14.el6_10.s390.rpm SHA-256: 4a9b4f77c32fce2647cd80810074f69512ad94ce021d3ed88f00c9ddbe531677
expat-2.0.1-14.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: afbac90e4c33af8cda96eaae040d1b0d861bd8aa1cec2c85c9ec79fc0124b612
expat-debuginfo-2.0.1-14.el6_10.s390.rpm SHA-256: 0e85c9b091a5ed8a0afdf1ab8af20007a61417ed6c777d75f4657ce2e2dc9825
expat-debuginfo-2.0.1-14.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 2d220030a3156de8f7f325bbe7c09fb668e2ea2606d14df21313f27d681ca7f9
expat-devel-2.0.1-14.el6_10.s390.rpm SHA-256: 6d99ec5cabb9ce75fd8cef3fcb1563bce2981c827017d3cae1e4e72b22fea23b
expat-devel-2.0.1-14.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 671db5e4e93bef8350b95a32349a4fddc4eb0fbd404acca5868d6f2993b2de5a

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

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