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HistoryApr 08, 2020 - 5:58 p.m.

expat security update

2020-04-0817:58:10
CentOS Project
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7.5 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.033 Low

EPSS

Percentile

91.4%

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2020:1011

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents.

Security Fix(es):

  • expat: Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in XML_GetBuffer() (CVE-2015-2716)

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 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2020-April/032514.html

Affected packages:
expat
expat-devel
expat-static

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1011

7.5 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.033 Low

EPSS

Percentile

91.4%