Integer Overflow or Wraparound The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package expat-devel (opens in a new tab)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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- published3 Apr 2025
- disclosed30 Aug 2024
Introduced: 30 Aug 2024
CVE-2024-45490 (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.
An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. xmlparse.c does not reject a negative length for XML_ParseBuffer.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45490
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/887
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/890
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241018-0004/
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Dec/10
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Dec/12
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Dec/6
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Dec/7
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Dec/8
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00036.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-613116.html