Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20204846
Revision Date:2020-11-04Version:638
Title:RHSA-2020:4846: mingw-expat security update (Moderate)
Description: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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-20843
    RHSA-2020:4846
    Platform(s):Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
    Product(s):
    Definition Synopsis
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is installed
  • OR Red Hat CoreOS 4 is installed
  • AND
  • mingw32-expat is earlier than 0:2.2.4-5.el8
  • AND mingw32-expat is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • mingw64-expat is earlier than 0:2.2.4-5.el8
  • AND mingw64-expat is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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