RHSA-2024:1530MediumCVSS 7.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: expat security update

Published
March 26, 2024
Last Modified
August 4, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2023-52425 →CVE-2024-28757 →

📋 Description

CVE-2023-52425 — expat: parsing large tokens can trigger a denial of service CVE-2024-28757 — expat: XML Entity Expansion

🎯 Affected products33

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • expat-devel-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • expat-devel-0:2.5.0-1.el9_3.1.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: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

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