Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package expat-devel (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published29 Mar 2025
- disclosed10 Mar 2024
Introduced: 10 Mar 2024
CVE-2024-28757 (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-devel package and not the expat-devel package as distributed by RHEL.
libexpat through 2.6.1 allows an XML Entity Expansion attack when there is isolated use of external parsers (created via XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate).
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-28757
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FPLC6WDSRDUYS7F7JWAOVOHFNOUQ43DD/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VK2O34GH43NTHBZBN7G5Y6YKJKPUCTBE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LKJ7V5F6LJCEQJXDBWGT27J7NAP3E3N7/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/15/1
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/839
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/842
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FPLC6WDSRDUYS7F7JWAOVOHFNOUQ43DD/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LKJ7V5F6LJCEQJXDBWGT27J7NAP3E3N7/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VK2O34GH43NTHBZBN7G5Y6YKJKPUCTBE/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240322-0001/
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784301.html