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ALSA-2022:0951 Not scored

Important: expat security update

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents. Security Fix(es): * expat: Malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25235) * expat: Namespace-separator characters in "xmlns[:prefix]" attribute values can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25236) * expat: Integer overflow in storeRawNames() (CVE-2022-25315) * expat: Large number of prefixed XML attributes on a single tag can crash libexpat (CVE-2021-45960) * expat: Integer overflow in doProlog in xmlparse.c (CVE-2021-46143) * expat: Integer overflow in addBinding in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22822) * expat: Integer overflow in build_model in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22823) * expat: Integer overflow in defineAttribute in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22824) * expat: Integer overflow in lookup in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22825) * expat: Integer overflow in nextScaffoldPart in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22826) * expat: Integer overflow in storeAtts in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22827) * expat: Integer overflow in function XML_GetBuffer (CVE-2022-23852) 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.

Exploit probability Not scored
Published March 16, 2022
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

AlmaLinux:8 expat
AlmaLinux:8 expat-devel

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities ALSA-2022:0951

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents. Security Fix(es): * expat: Malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25235) * expat: Namespace-separator characters in "xmlns[:prefix]" attribute values can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25236) * expat: Integer overflow in storeRawNames() (CVE-2022-25315) * expat: Large number of prefixed XML attributes on a single tag can crash libexpat (CVE-2021-45960) * expat: Integer overflow in doProlog in xmlparse.c (CVE-2021-46143) * expat: Integer overflow in addBinding in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22822) * expat: Integer overflow in build_model in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22823) * expat: Integer overflow in defineAttribute in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22824) * expat: Integer overflow in lookup in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22825) * expat: Integer overflow in nextScaffoldPart in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22826) * expat: Integer overflow in storeAtts in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22827) * expat: Integer overflow in function XML_GetBuffer (CVE-2022-23852) 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.

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence