rhsa-2023_3068
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat
Published
2023-05-16 08:49
Modified
2024-11-15 13:32
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: mingw-expat security update

Notes

Topic
An update for mingw-expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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. The mingw-expat packages provide a port of the Expat library for MinGW. Security Fix(es): * expat: a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-40674) 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 8.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Terms of Use
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