ALSA-2020:4846
See a problem?- Source
- https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2020-4846.html
- Import Source
- https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2020:4846.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALSA-2020:4846
- Related
- Published
- 2020-11-03T12:41:03Z
- Modified
- 2021-08-11T08:54:00Z
- Summary
- Moderate: mingw-expat security update
- Details
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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: large number of colons in input makes parser consume high amount of resources, leading to DoS (CVE-2018-20843)
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 AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.
- References
Affected packages
AlmaLinux:8 / mingw32-expat
Package
- Name
- mingw32-expat