rhsa-2020_4484
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat
Published
2020-11-04 02:11
Modified
2024-11-15 01:08
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: expat security update

Notes

Topic
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.
Details
Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents. Security Fix(es): * expat: large number of colons in input makes parser consume high amount of resources, leading to DoS (CVE-2018-20843) * expat: heap-based buffer over-read via crafted XML input (CVE-2019-15903) 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. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Terms of Use
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