RHSA-2022:5244MediumCVSS 7.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: expat security update

Published
July 1, 2022
Last Modified
August 4, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2022-25313 →CVE-2022-25314 →

📋 Description

CVE-2022-25313 — expat: Stack exhaustion in doctype parsing CVE-2022-25314 — expat: Integer overflow in copyString()

🎯 Affected products33

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-devel-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • expat-devel-0:2.2.10-12.el9_0.2.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 After installing the updated packages, applications using the Expat library must be restarted for the update to take effect. Workaround: There is no known mitigation other than restricting applications using the expat library from processing untrusted XML content.

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