[ALSA-2020:4484] expat security update

Severity Moderate

Affected Packages 6

CVEs 2

An update for expat is now available for AlmaLinux AlmaLinux 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.

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 AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Package	Affected Version
pkg:rpm/almalinux/expat?arch=x86_64&distro=almalinux-8	< 2.2.5-4.el8
pkg:rpm/almalinux/expat?arch=i686&distro=almalinux-8	< 2.2.5-4.el8
pkg:rpm/almalinux/expat?arch=aarch64&distro=almalinux-8	< 2.2.5-4.el8
pkg:rpm/almalinux/expat-devel?arch=x86_64&distro=almalinux-8	< 2.2.5-4.el8
pkg:rpm/almalinux/expat-devel?arch=i686&distro=almalinux-8	< 2.2.5-4.el8
pkg:rpm/almalinux/expat-devel?arch=aarch64&distro=almalinux-8	< 2.2.5-4.el8

ID

ALSA-2020:4484

Severity

moderate

URL

https://errata.almalinux.org/ALSA-2020:4484.html

Published

2020-11-03T12:09:00
(3 years ago)

Modified

2021-05-04T09:10:38
(3 years ago)

Rights

Other Advisories

Source	# ID	Name	URL
CVE	CVE-2018-20843		https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2018-20843
CVE	CVE-2019-15903		https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2019-15903

Type	Package URL	Namespace	Name / Product	Version	Distribution / Platform	Arch
Affected	pkg:rpm/almalinux/expat?arch=x86_64&distro=almalinux-8	almalinux	expat	< 2.2.5-4.el8	almalinux-8	x86_64
Affected	pkg:rpm/almalinux/expat?arch=i686&distro=almalinux-8	almalinux	expat	< 2.2.5-4.el8	almalinux-8	i686
Affected	pkg:rpm/almalinux/expat?arch=aarch64&distro=almalinux-8	almalinux	expat	< 2.2.5-4.el8	almalinux-8	aarch64
Affected	pkg:rpm/almalinux/expat-devel?arch=x86_64&distro=almalinux-8	almalinux	expat-devel	< 2.2.5-4.el8	almalinux-8	x86_64
Affected	pkg:rpm/almalinux/expat-devel?arch=i686&distro=almalinux-8	almalinux	expat-devel	< 2.2.5-4.el8	almalinux-8	i686
Affected	pkg:rpm/almalinux/expat-devel?arch=aarch64&distro=almalinux-8	almalinux	expat-devel	< 2.2.5-4.el8	almalinux-8	aarch64

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