MGASA-2022-0031

Description

Updated expat packages fix security vulnerability In Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3, a left shift by 29 (or more) places in the storeAtts function in xmlparse.c can lead to realloc misbehavior (e.g., allocating too few bytes, or only freeing memory). (CVE-2021-45960) In doProlog in xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3, an integer overflow exists for m_groupSize. (CVE-2021-46143) addBinding in xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3 has an integer overflow. (CVE-2022-22822) build_model in xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3 has an integer overflow. (CVE-2022-22823) defineAttribute in xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3 has an integer overflow. (CVE-2022-22824) lookup in xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3 has an integer overflow. (CVE-2022-22825) nextScaffoldPart in xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3 has an integer overflow. (CVE-2022-22826) storeAtts in xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3 has an integer overflow. (CVE-2022-22827)

Affected Systems

• mageia•expat

  < 2.2.10-1.1.mga8

References (4)

• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0031.html
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29902
• https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/expat-2-4-3-released/
• https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_4_3/expat/Changes