Expat: Multiple Vulnerabilities — GLSA 202209-24

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Expat, the worst of which could result in arbitrary code execution.

Affected packages

dev-libs/expat on all architectures
Affected versions < 2.4.9
Unaffected versions >= 2.4.9

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-2.4.9"
 

References

Release date
September 29, 2022

Latest revision
September 29, 2022: 1

Severity
high

Exploitable
remote

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