expat: CVE-2022-40674

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-40674  

Debian Bug report logs - #1019761
expat: CVE-2022-40674

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Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>

Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 19:51:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: security, upstream

Found in version expat/2.4.8-1

Forwarded to https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/629

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Bug#1019761; Package src:expat. (Wed, 14 Sep 2022 19:51:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: expat: CVE-2022-40674
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:48:46 +0200
Source: expat
Version: 2.4.8-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/629
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil@debian.org, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for expat.

CVE-2022-40674[0]:
| libexpat before 2.4.9 has a use-after-free in the doContent function
| in xmlparse.c.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-40674
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-40674
[1] https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/629
[2] https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/640

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore



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