Security Vulnerabilities fixed in expat RHSA-2022:1309

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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: 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) 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. SolutionFor details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 After installing the updated packages, applications using the Expat library must be restarted for the update to take effect.

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