- Issued:
- 2024-04-02
- Updated:
- 2024-04-02
RHSA-2024:1615 - Security Advisory
Synopsis
Moderate: 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 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.
Security Fix(es):
- expat: parsing large tokens can trigger a denial of service (CVE-2023-52425)
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 for x86_64 8 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
Fixes
- BZ - 2262877 - CVE-2023-52425 expat: parsing large tokens can trigger a denial of service
CVEs
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8
SRPM | |
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expat-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.src.rpm | SHA-256: 662aaa0e5e169e24f6b27e7bd79c608d8f663f104aad8fc00dc9e19573789b30 |
x86_64 | |
expat-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.i686.rpm | SHA-256: 72fe88791b456d70ec19cb93ce818626da38571758123b12b2b1ba1f78181bfa |
expat-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 7eed8d387e2bb7b4a4dfe22574560cdf47c54b3eaa403c2bbac52bb3b663b914 |
expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.i686.rpm | SHA-256: 06680461cb456bcdbb572b0ddef567e30ffaef01448997bf526d7ef668239419 |
expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 7ad95972fea001c2cf1a800f34214a3f6f7e2767174e9c1dfac635725d97beed |
expat-debugsource-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.i686.rpm | SHA-256: fa0ceffd4039f7bab60eda0239e053215779dc9673769986744f611115302d8f |
expat-debugsource-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: d2c870d0458759cdd35470bff0f4ae112c5e2777926059d0d7a7697ee430bd69 |
expat-devel-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.i686.rpm | SHA-256: 7e46b30713bf08e56e047680a8ff9e4528e9e701aa1611730539c3eb9d174a82 |
expat-devel-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 3168fc7a4618823203a82fe5c8494d19e254c028351e2bbca1d21af2cddbe282 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8
SRPM | |
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expat-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.src.rpm | SHA-256: 662aaa0e5e169e24f6b27e7bd79c608d8f663f104aad8fc00dc9e19573789b30 |
s390x | |
expat-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 68cf6c9d16a369991a4519921dc1c8628b7143fade3d4246ba4b0666c32c42ff |
expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 3cc964519de043f0b5cce81e8d0cff51eea33a49e3023b7790118ddbac450094 |
expat-debugsource-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 3a3403c1e61cfce7ffc1b593c190638ce8cca6e6b7e394eab90a3d1a00fe8e6d |
expat-devel-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 4b916b445f5b6d7e12530b960b6f72c53449b1e2020bb90a0377a1f8f186e8ad |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8
SRPM | |
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expat-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.src.rpm | SHA-256: 662aaa0e5e169e24f6b27e7bd79c608d8f663f104aad8fc00dc9e19573789b30 |
ppc64le | |
expat-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.ppc64le.rpm | SHA-256: d50c8e03cd2fc05588b49164c5f1eb60fcc40f9cc2a3c4d2d3ea9d1f219734aa |
expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.ppc64le.rpm | SHA-256: 100cb3d3723584ee0d6dd8395bb2408073c47cd55382e76c6df87f0f4b2464ac |
expat-debugsource-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.ppc64le.rpm | SHA-256: 929566c593228e80a61548dd63eb29f000476f3f334000f5e1231a89f5c022b5 |
expat-devel-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.ppc64le.rpm | SHA-256: 7f7f962f0f309ea9f5ee0b1773379043123b51ed25766301c36c5abf51a784ca |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8
SRPM | |
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expat-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.src.rpm | SHA-256: 662aaa0e5e169e24f6b27e7bd79c608d8f663f104aad8fc00dc9e19573789b30 |
aarch64 | |
expat-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.aarch64.rpm | SHA-256: 48f5e2aae1774df5696ef3a8630fa339efdb2add84eb586ca2d50a75997918c0 |
expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.aarch64.rpm | SHA-256: 1d8ccf46931d0e8d43585ed1da82eb2c2f8edabb494ecc0869099e07a9514dcf |
expat-debugsource-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.aarch64.rpm | SHA-256: f16929a899debce7e5db282d7eec2a03095ccdd24342063b499ef4f63e7abe92 |
expat-devel-2.2.5-11.el8_9.1.aarch64.rpm | SHA-256: 4405bf10e67e0df37f0cb9acb715777b4997bf388d6960e2f06e8dbf08252b89 |
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