Advisories ยป MGASA-2022-0031

Updated expat packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 25 Jan 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2021-45960 , CVE-2021-46143 , CVE-2022-22822 , CVE-2022-22823 , CVE-2022-22824 , CVE-2022-22825 , CVE-2022-22826 , CVE-2022-22827

Description

In Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3, a left shift by 29 (or more) places
in the storeAtts function in xmlparse.c can lead to realloc misbehavior
(e.g., allocating too few bytes, or only freeing memory). (CVE-2021-45960)

In doProlog in xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3, an integer
overflow exists for m_groupSize. (CVE-2021-46143)

addBinding in xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3 has an
integer overflow. (CVE-2022-22822)

build_model in xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3 has an
integer overflow. (CVE-2022-22823)

defineAttribute in xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3 has an
integer overflow. (CVE-2022-22824)

lookup in xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3 has an integer
overflow. (CVE-2022-22825)

nextScaffoldPart in xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3 has an
integer overflow. (CVE-2022-22826)

storeAtts in xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3 has an
integer overflow. (CVE-2022-22827)

References

SRPMS

8/core