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High ALSA-2023:3068 1 CVE

Important: mingw-expat security update

Published May 16, 2023 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents. The mingw-expat packages provide a port of the Expat library for MinGW.

Security Fix(es):

* expat: a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-40674)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 mingw32-expat 2.4.8-2.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 mingw64-expat 2.4.8-2.el8

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40674
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2130769
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2023-3068.html