-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 ==================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Moderate: mingw-expat security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4846-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4846 Issue date: 2020-11-03 CVE Names: CVE-2018-20843 ==================================================================== 1. Summary: 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 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 CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - noarch 3. Description: 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: large number of colons in input makes parser consume high amount of resources, leading to DoS (CVE-2018-20843) 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. 4. Solution: For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 1723723 - CVE-2018-20843 expat: large number of colons in input makes parser consume high amount of resources, leading to DoS 6. Package List: Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8): Source: mingw-expat-2.2.4-5.el8.src.rpm noarch: mingw32-expat-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm mingw32-expat-debuginfo-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm mingw64-expat-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm mingw64-expat-debuginfo-2.2.4-5.el8.noarch.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-2018-20843 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/ 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ Copyright 2020 Red Hat, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIVAwUBX6I38tzjgjWX9erEAQit0g//Uaz1TRzoSYBGhlY3YNsMPBhh8AzHqitA ATjK5mtqneqghy/KUtsltbaK1usXcLWgljOSKCALYOqNJGexTFWLK5ZubyRgKQk/ 7p2wrnGUCUj3WlThjKX+ss6OUxVdQisAUbWYdedeacobJLIRvfxxsOLyrJPu4wIJ 2MzKllBOnYq08l5EKs60vrwpTWpzZmYC7BAsRbZU5E8xWFfVRN4fS7kuQAU4tsjI 9ldp8J6TNyw/qcayUeqAdyPn7fDVEICbWQxyz4Ccf37SxIlyn4LroHsah3yaoX1S m9ViRBS8gwBTCuOn0wxj57vHVklj/AXdP0UdLeYfgHBY5SxPsk55jWJQavci7og9 2w4yVUSkyfCTSqr6mrhBC4sCK4XeLqVodV09C+S1oGexQV0ppgKOrbW/r7wpI1If /HfmvXKpFR2XYsooOQiIAWBYOMQc2Rd7lsyNuU7CRjEnWiY3qZ/FF3sLFtS+pr+v NcJ04hyQvX1hearqCItQhoJFfXddiAHmtgt5eo4jm8Os40XOqaEKiram0lPEK7U9 9VkekSYVCjBENxrVrCe1EIztQhJDo1Ir+qduwrnGZsgEAFX6jUPO4Xh9mcRcXcKK dY77cg+elb7qE2QuCymsPj26hUr0jfU/tRLd7OmmcmCthGQAChF10i6oqb/XDep8 o8iHmYs/wbs=G57Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- RHSA-announce mailing list RHSA-announce@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhsa-announce