The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:7811 advisory.

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

    The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: mingw-expat (2.4.8). (BZ#2057023,     BZ#2057037, BZ#2057127)

    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: Stack exhaustion in doctype parsing (CVE-2022-25313)

    * expat: Integer overflow in copyString() (CVE-2022-25314)

    * expat: Integer overflow in the doProlog function (CVE-2022-23990)

    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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 Release Notes     linked from 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 : mingw-expat (RHSA-2022:7811)

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