Expat: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 201911-08

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Expat, the worst of which could result in a Denial of Service condition.

Affected packages

dev-libs/expat on all architectures
Affected versions < 2.2.8
Unaffected versions >= 2.2.8

Background

Expat is a set of XML parsing libraries.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Expat. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Expat users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/expat-2.2.8"
 

References

Release date
November 25, 2019

Latest revision
November 25, 2019: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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