ALSA-2022:7811

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ALSA-2022:7811

Summary: Important: mingw-expat security update

Details: Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents. The mingw-expat packages provide a port of the Expat library for MinGW. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: mingw-expat (2.4.8). (BZ#2057023, BZ#2057037, BZ#2057127) Security Fix(es): * expat: Malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25235) * expat: Namespace-separator characters in "xmlns[:prefix]" attribute values can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25236) * expat: Integer overflow in storeRawNames() (CVE-2022-25315) * expat: Stack exhaustion in doctype parsing (CVE-2022-25313) * expat: Integer overflow in copyString() (CVE-2022-25314) * expat: Integer overflow in the doProlog function (CVE-2022-23990) 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.

References: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7811, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-23990, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-25235, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-25236, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-25313, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-25314, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-25315, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2048356, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2056350, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2056354, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2056363, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2056366, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2056370, https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2022-7811.html