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An expat security update (aarch64) has been released for Oracle Linux 7.



El-errata: ELSA-2022-6834 Important: Oracle Linux 7 expat security update (aarch64)


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2022-6834

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2022-6834.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

aarch64:
expat-2.1.0-15.0.1.el7_9.aarch64.rpm
expat-devel-2.1.0-15.0.1.el7_9.aarch64.rpm
expat-static-2.1.0-15.0.1.el7_9.aarch64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/expat-2.1.0-15.0.1.el7_9.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2022-40674



Description of changes:

[2.1.0-15.0.1]
- lib: Prevent integer overflow in doProlog [CVE-2022-23990][Orabug: 33910302]

[2.1.0-15]
- Ensure raw tagnames are safe exiting internalEntityParser
- Resolves: CVE-2022-40674

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