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A mingw-expat security update has been released for Fedora 36.



SECURITY: Fedora 36 Update: mingw-expat-2.5.0-1.fc36


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-49db80f821
2022-11-13 01:15:48.363420
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Name : mingw-expat
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 2.5.0
Release : 1.fc36
URL :   http://www.libexpat.org/
Summary : MinGW Windows port of expat XML parser library
Description :
This is expat, the C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark. Expat
is a stream oriented XML parser. This means that you register handlers with
the parser prior to starting the parse. These handlers are called when the
parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parsed. A
start tag is an example of the kind of structures for which you may
register handlers.

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Update Information:

Update to 2.5.0, fixes CVE-2022-43680.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Nov 4 2022 Sandro Mani - 2.5.0-1
- Update to 2.5.0
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2140061 - CVE-2022-43680 mingw-expat: expat: use-after free caused by overeager destruction of a shared DTD in XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate in out-of-memory situations [fedora-35]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2140061
[ 2 ] Bug #2140064 - CVE-2022-43680 mingw-expat: expat: use-after free caused by overeager destruction of a shared DTD in XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate in out-of-memory situations [fedora-36]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2140064
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-49db80f821' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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