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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:6833 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2022-10-06
Updated:
2022-10-06

RHSA-2022:6833 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: expat security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An update for expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

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: 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.

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 for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64

Fixes

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

CVEs

  • CVE-2022-40674

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 for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1

SRPM
expat-2.2.5-3.el8_1.2.src.rpm SHA-256: fe1f23d311f99c43257189725e0e3971e71087d2e5910046adc516d61d1c936b
ppc64le
expat-2.2.5-3.el8_1.2.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 79bfbfa242e1ee55120131992030cf82248383f903d5ec477cc1a6723620cb71
expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-3.el8_1.2.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: ee59651bd406f57b8ad67d050e41b3eb282dc9c8e7616238c6d3318b95836a4a
expat-debugsource-2.2.5-3.el8_1.2.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 2e9ae10207a9957f91af0b0b20f39ec03dc3051d9f12054f6bde0820e7bd9bea
expat-devel-2.2.5-3.el8_1.2.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 43637d648e5c283260855d6a4251be90e4ee27caea86d19a60eb66a95c17694b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1

SRPM
expat-2.2.5-3.el8_1.2.src.rpm SHA-256: fe1f23d311f99c43257189725e0e3971e71087d2e5910046adc516d61d1c936b
x86_64
expat-2.2.5-3.el8_1.2.i686.rpm SHA-256: 38a516add3cc933ff071b74141ee9c06b1916040ea05e9cfbbc9b2a470ee717d
expat-2.2.5-3.el8_1.2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 43abd56c9cb6cc5f3c1933b8a6c1a2f774106252806090d1bd4ef89b5040a654
expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-3.el8_1.2.i686.rpm SHA-256: 7b9a06927a546b4f6cf3fa2608eeac4eb790e3d1c37646be26dfc55c06a9fa55
expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-3.el8_1.2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2208ed225bb883762c4fbd99ad75a6c1e7eff3d8f4e26d1342b68235307cdb10
expat-debugsource-2.2.5-3.el8_1.2.i686.rpm SHA-256: 89acc06f245d74eb22b403ad33327c2967dc50f020b793c230efdd801a0037b9
expat-debugsource-2.2.5-3.el8_1.2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d6b8b8f64e7576d8cacd1ee057e1f0db02c688b65214c0153dcc8d8bf3d5a126
expat-devel-2.2.5-3.el8_1.2.i686.rpm SHA-256: 6b7974981ce328fe7e5a8e5b3e351a034500b11c6cc8c167ba4c37f00409b29f
expat-devel-2.2.5-3.el8_1.2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 8c79ea87c892dda3961d101d074ee066ccaa20ce7e4d4028f4157c3ae4fad914

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

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