RLSA-2023:3068

Source
https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2023:3068
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2023:3068.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RLSA-2023:3068
Upstream
Published
2025-12-27T09:04:33.590775Z
Modified
2025-12-27T09:29:54.482521Z
Severity
  • 8.1 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Important: mingw-expat security update
Details

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents. The mingw-expat packages provide a port of the Expat library for MinGW.

Security Fix(es):

  • expat: a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-40674)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

References
Credits
    • Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
    • Red Hat

Affected packages

Rocky Linux:8 / mingw-expat

Package

Name
mingw-expat
Purl
pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/mingw-expat?distro=rocky-linux-8-aarch64&epoch=0

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0:2.4.8-2.el8
Database specific
{
    "yum_repository": "PowerTools"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2023:3068.json"