RHSA-2022:1309: Red Hat Security Advisory: expat security update

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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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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

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

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