Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-6989-03 - An update for expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Issues addressed include an integer overflow vulnerability.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: expat security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:6989-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6989
Issue date: 2024-09-24
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2024-45490
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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.
Description:
Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents.
Security Fix(es):
* libexpat: Negative Length Parsing Vulnerability in libexpat (CVE-2024-45490)
* libexpat: Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CVE-2024-45491)
* libexpat: integer overflow (CVE-2024-45492)
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.
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2024-45490
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308615
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308616
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308617