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Medium ALSA-2024:9502 1 CVE

Moderate: expat security update

Published Nov 13, 2024 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents.

Security Fix(es):

* libexpat: expat: DoS via XML_ResumeParser (CVE-2024-50602)

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.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 expat 2.2.5-16.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 expat-devel 2.2.5-16.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-50602
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2321987
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-9502.html