RLSA-2020:4484
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- https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2020:4484.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RLSA-2020:4484
- Related
- Published
- 2020-11-03T12:09:00Z
- Modified
- 2023-02-02T14:09:06.394141Z
- Severity
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- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- Moderate: expat security update
- Details
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Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents.
Security Fix(es):
expat: large number of colons in input makes parser consume high amount of resources, leading to DoS (CVE-2018-20843)
expat: heap-based buffer over-read via crafted XML input (CVE-2019-15903)
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 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.
- References
- Credits
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- Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
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- Red Hat
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Affected packages
Rocky Linux:8 / expat
Package
- Name
- expat
- Purl
- pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/expat?distro=rocky-linux-8-4-legacy&epoch=0