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Red Hat: CVE-2022-25235: Malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences can lead to arbitrary code execution (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2022-25235: Malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences can lead to arbitrary code execution (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/16/2022
Created
03/12/2022
Added
03/11/2022
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

xmltok_impl.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.5 lacks certain validation of encoding, such as checks for whether a UTF-8 character is valid in a certain context.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-expat
  • redhat-upgrade-expat-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-expat-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-expat-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-expat-static
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-mingw32-expat
  • redhat-upgrade-mingw32-expat-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-mingw64-expat
  • redhat-upgrade-mingw64-expat-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-xmlrpc-c
  • redhat-upgrade-xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-xmlrpc-c-c
  • redhat-upgrade-xmlrpc-c-c-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-xmlrpc-c-client
  • redhat-upgrade-xmlrpc-c-client-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-xmlrpc-c-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-xmlrpc-c-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-xmlrpc-c-devel

References

  • CVE-2022-25235
  • RHSA-2022:0816
  • RHSA-2022:0817
  • RHSA-2022:0818
  • RHSA-2022:0824
  • RHSA-2022:0843
  • RHSA-2022:0845
  • RHSA-2022:0850
  • RHSA-2022:0853
  • RHSA-2022:0951
  • RHSA-2022:1012
  • RHSA-2022:1069
  • RHSA-2022:1070
  • RHSA-2022:1540
  • RHSA-2022:1643
  • RHSA-2022:1644
  • RHSA-2022:7811
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