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Red Hat: CVE-2024-45490: libexpat: Negative Length Parsing Vulnerability in libexpat (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2024-45490: libexpat: Negative Length Parsing Vulnerability in libexpat (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/30/2024
Created
09/20/2024
Added
09/19/2024
Modified
10/21/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. xmlparse.c does not reject a negative length for XML_ParseBuffer.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-expat
  • redhat-upgrade-expat-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-expat-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-expat-devel

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