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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:7811 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2022-11-08
Updated:
2022-11-08

RHSA-2022:7811 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: mingw-expat security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

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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 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. The mingw-expat packages provide a port of the Expat library for MinGW.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: mingw-expat (2.4.8). (BZ#2057023, BZ#2057037, BZ#2057127)

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)
  • expat: Stack exhaustion in doctype parsing (CVE-2022-25313)
  • expat: Integer overflow in copyString() (CVE-2022-25314)
  • expat: Integer overflow in the doProlog function (CVE-2022-23990)

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 8.7 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:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

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

Fixes

  • BZ - 2048356 - CVE-2022-23990 expat: integer overflow in the doProlog function
  • BZ - 2056350 - CVE-2022-25313 expat: Stack exhaustion in doctype parsing
  • BZ - 2056354 - CVE-2022-25314 expat: Integer overflow in copyString()
  • 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-2022-23990
  • CVE-2022-25235
  • CVE-2022-25236
  • CVE-2022-25313
  • CVE-2022-25314
  • CVE-2022-25315

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
  • https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.7_release_notes/index
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 8

SRPM
mingw-expat-2.4.8-1.el8.src.rpm SHA-256: bd5121b3e119f1ae6cb13c80cc7e0242a80496761e20b2cef6dcc4c391362b60
x86_64
mingw32-expat-2.4.8-1.el8.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 3ad78ed537b0f62429b6876d58defaf4a0b05f9b1f40abd3292d2d896d36e0f4
mingw32-expat-debuginfo-2.4.8-1.el8.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 48e4866d4e1aa8b67c0a8f34a8940b9faa05a62f1cf6cf4e415b6406bec8fc9b
mingw64-expat-2.4.8-1.el8.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 48d574cb7470ce0fdc53d1879a2e6e3089a1762c4fb5c90c3db63a71e0ed0699
mingw64-expat-debuginfo-2.4.8-1.el8.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 613f71a2fef82d1e6aba568f1de9383ef6d5a60a26675a51e54f96cedd74e52a

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8

SRPM
mingw-expat-2.4.8-1.el8.src.rpm SHA-256: bd5121b3e119f1ae6cb13c80cc7e0242a80496761e20b2cef6dcc4c391362b60
x86_64
mingw32-expat-2.4.8-1.el8.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 3ad78ed537b0f62429b6876d58defaf4a0b05f9b1f40abd3292d2d896d36e0f4
mingw32-expat-debuginfo-2.4.8-1.el8.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 48e4866d4e1aa8b67c0a8f34a8940b9faa05a62f1cf6cf4e415b6406bec8fc9b
mingw64-expat-2.4.8-1.el8.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 48d574cb7470ce0fdc53d1879a2e6e3089a1762c4fb5c90c3db63a71e0ed0699
mingw64-expat-debuginfo-2.4.8-1.el8.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 613f71a2fef82d1e6aba568f1de9383ef6d5a60a26675a51e54f96cedd74e52a

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

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