gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201911-08.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201911-08">
  <title>Expat: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Expat, the worst of
    which could result in a Denial of Service condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">expat</product>
  <announced>2019-11-25</announced>
  <revised count="1">2019-11-25</revised>
  <bug>688734</bug>
  <bug>694362</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-libs/expat" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.2.8</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.2.8</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Expat is a set of XML parsing libraries.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Expat. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Expat users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/expat-2.2.8"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20843">CVE-2018-20843</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15903">CVE-2019-15903</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2019-09-24T11:38:45Z">whissi</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2019-11-25T00:18:23Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>