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expat security update

2020-10-2017:58:03
CentOS Project
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366

7.8 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

0.582 Medium

EPSS

Percentile

97.8%

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2020:3952

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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2020-October/032764.html

Affected packages:
expat
expat-devel
expat-static

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3952

7.8 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

0.582 Medium

EPSS

Percentile

97.8%