Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package expat  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-EXPAT-9459570
  • published16 Mar 2025
  • disclosed19 Feb 2022

Introduced: 19 Feb 2022

CVE-2022-25315  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream expat package and not the expat package as distributed by RHEL.

In Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.5, there is an integer overflow in storeRawNames.