Use After Free Affecting expat-debugsource package, versions <0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.3
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.56% (79th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ROCKY8-EXPATDEBUGSOURCE-3191211
- published 5 Jan 2023
- disclosed 14 Sep 2022
Introduced: 14 Sep 2022
CVE-2022-40674 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 expat-debugsource to version 0:2.2.5-8.el8_6.3 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2022:6878.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream expat-debugsource package and not the expat-debugsource package as distributed by Rocky-Linux.
See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
libexpat before 2.4.9 has a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c.
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-40674
- https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2022-40674.json
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GSVZN3IJ6OCPSJL7AEX3ZHSHAHFOGESK/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J2IGJNHFV53PYST7VQV3T4NHVYAMXA36/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LQB6FJAM5YQ35SF5B2MN25Y2FX56EOEZ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WE2ZKEPGFCZ7R6DRVH3K6RBJPT42ZBEG/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XCGBVQQ47URGJAZWHCISHDWF6QBTV2LE/
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/629
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/640
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00029.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GSVZN3IJ6OCPSJL7AEX3ZHSHAHFOGESK/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J2IGJNHFV53PYST7VQV3T4NHVYAMXA36/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LQB6FJAM5YQ35SF5B2MN25Y2FX56EOEZ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WE2ZKEPGFCZ7R6DRVH3K6RBJPT42ZBEG/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XCGBVQQ47URGJAZWHCISHDWF6QBTV2LE/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-24
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-06
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221028-0008/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5236
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