RHSA-2020:4484: Moderate: expat security update

First published: Tue Nov 03 2020(Updated: )

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents.<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> expat: large number of colons in input makes parser consume high amount of resources, leading to DoS (CVE-2018-20843)</li> <li> expat: heap-based buffer over-read via crafted XML input (CVE-2019-15903)</li> 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.<br>Additional Changes:<br>For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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