RHSA-2024:0421MediumCVSS 7.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: expat security update

Published
January 25, 2024
Last Modified
August 4, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2022-43680 →

📋 Description

CVE-2022-43680 — expat: use-after free caused by overeager destruction of a shared DTD in XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate

🎯 Affected products22

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • expat-0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • expat-0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • expat-0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • expat-0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • expat-0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • expat-0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • expat-devel-0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • expat-devel-0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • expat-devel-0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • expat-devel-0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • expat-devel-0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)

✅ 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.

🔗 References (4)