The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0951 advisory.

    Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents.

    Security Fix(es):

    * expat: Malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25235)

    * expat: Namespace-separator characters in xmlns[:prefix] attribute values can lead to arbitrary code     execution (CVE-2022-25236)

    * expat: Integer overflow in storeRawNames() (CVE-2022-25315)

    * expat: Large number of prefixed XML attributes on a single tag can crash libexpat (CVE-2021-45960)

    * expat: Integer overflow in doProlog in xmlparse.c (CVE-2021-46143)

    * expat: Integer overflow in addBinding in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22822)

    * expat: Integer overflow in build_model in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22823)

    * expat: Integer overflow in defineAttribute in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22824)

    * expat: Integer overflow in lookup in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22825)

    * expat: Integer overflow in nextScaffoldPart in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22826)

    * expat: Integer overflow in storeAtts in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-22827)

    * expat: Integer overflow in function XML_GetBuffer (CVE-2022-23852)

    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 8 : expat (RHSA-2022:0951)

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