RHSA-2024:3926MediumCVSS 7.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: expat security update

Published
June 13, 2024
Last Modified
October 15, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2024-28757 →CVE-2023-52425 →

📋 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 EUS (v.9.2)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-debuginfo-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-debugsource-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-devel-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.2)
  • expat-devel-0:2.5.0-1.el9_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.2)
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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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