An expat security update has been released for Oracle Linux 8.

El-errata: ELSA-2022-6878 Important: Oracle Linux 8 expat security update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2022-6878

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2022-6878.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
expat-2.2.5-8.0.1.el8_6.3.i686.rpm
expat-2.2.5-8.0.1.el8_6.3.x86_64.rpm
expat-devel-2.2.5-8.0.1.el8_6.3.i686.rpm
expat-devel-2.2.5-8.0.1.el8_6.3.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
expat-2.2.5-8.0.1.el8_6.3.aarch64.rpm
expat-devel-2.2.5-8.0.1.el8_6.3.aarch64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/expat-2.2.5-8.0.1.el8_6.3.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2022-40674



Description of changes:

[2.2.5-8.0.1.3]
- lib: Prevent integer overflow in doProlog [CVE-2022-23990][Orabug: 33910314]

[2.2.5-8.3]
- Ensure raw tagnames are safe exiting internalEntityParser
- Resolves: CVE-2022-40674

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