An expat security update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

RHSA-2023:0103-01: Moderate: expat security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: expat security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:0103-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:   https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0103
Issue date: 2023-01-12
CVE Names: CVE-2022-43680
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1. Summary:

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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

3. Description:

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents.

Security Fix(es):

* expat: use-after free caused by overeager destruction of a shared DTD in
XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate (CVE-2022-43680)

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.

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

  https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

2140059 - CVE-2022-43680 expat: use-after free caused by overeager destruction of a shared DTD in XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):

Source:
expat-2.2.5-10.el8_7.1.src.rpm

aarch64:
expat-2.2.5-10.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm
expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-10.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm
expat-debugsource-2.2.5-10.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm
expat-devel-2.2.5-10.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
expat-2.2.5-10.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm
expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-10.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm
expat-debugsource-2.2.5-10.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm
expat-devel-2.2.5-10.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
expat-2.2.5-10.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm
expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-10.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm
expat-debugsource-2.2.5-10.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm
expat-devel-2.2.5-10.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
expat-2.2.5-10.el8_7.1.i686.rpm
expat-2.2.5-10.el8_7.1.x86_64.rpm
expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-10.el8_7.1.i686.rpm
expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-10.el8_7.1.x86_64.rpm
expat-debugsource-2.2.5-10.el8_7.1.i686.rpm
expat-debugsource-2.2.5-10.el8_7.1.x86_64.rpm
expat-devel-2.2.5-10.el8_7.1.i686.rpm
expat-devel-2.2.5-10.el8_7.1.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
  https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-43680
  https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at   https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

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