Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.13% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-OPENSHIFTOSERHELCOREOS9-19228357
  • published23 Aug 2026
  • disclosed30 Aug 2024

Introduced: 30 Aug 2024

CVE-2024-45491  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 package and not the openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. dtdCopy in xmlparse.c can have an integer overflow for nDefaultAtts on 32-bit platforms (where UINT_MAX equals SIZE_MAX).

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1