File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.38199
<patchinfo incident="38199">
<issue tracker="cve" id="2024-8176"/>
<issue tracker="bnc" id="1239618">VUL-0: CVE-2024-8176: expat: libexpat: expat: Improper Restriction of XML Entity Expansion Depth in libexpat</issue>
<issue tracker="jsc" id="SLE-21253"/>
<issue tracker="jsc" id="PED-12500"/>
<packager>pgajdos</packager>
<rating>important</rating>
<category>security</category>
<summary>Security update for expat</summary>
<description>This update for expat fixes the following issues:
- CVE-2024-8176: Fixed denial of service from chaining a large number of entities caused
by stack overflow by resolving use of recursion (bsc#1239618)
Other fixes:
- version update to 2.7.1 (jsc#PED-12500)
Bug fixes:
#980 #989 Restore event pointer behavior from Expat 2.6.4
(that the fix to CVE-2024-8176 changed in 2.7.0);
affected API functions are:
- XML_GetCurrentByteCount
- XML_GetCurrentByteIndex
- XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber
- XML_GetCurrentLineNumber
- XML_GetInputContext
Other changes:
#976 #977 Autotools: Integrate files "fuzz/xml_lpm_fuzzer.{cpp,proto}"
with Automake that were missing from 2.7.0 release tarballs
#983 #984 Fix printf format specifiers for 32bit Emscripten
#992 docs: Promote OpenSSF Best Practices self-certification
#978 tests/benchmark: Resolve mistaken double close
#986 Address compiler warnings
#990 #993 Version info bumped from 11:1:10 (libexpat*.so.1.10.1)
to 11:2:10 (libexpat*.so.1.10.2); see https://verbump.de/
for what these numbers do
Infrastructure:
#982 CI: Start running Perl XML::Parser integration tests
#987 CI: Enforce Clang Static Analyzer clean code
#991 CI: Re-enable warning clang-analyzer-valist.Uninitialized
for clang-tidy
#981 CI: Cover compilation with musl
#983 #984 CI: Cover compilation with 32bit Emscripten
#976 #977 CI: Protect against fuzzer files missing from future
release archives
- version update to 2.7.0
#935 #937 Autotools: Make generated CMake files look for
libexpat.@SO_MAJOR@.dylib on macOS
#925 Autotools: Sync CMake templates with CMake 3.29
#945 #962 #966 CMake: Drop support for CMake <3.13
#942 CMake: Small fuzzing related improvements
#921 docs: Add missing documentation of error code
XML_ERROR_NOT_STARTED that was introduced with 2.6.4
#941 docs: Document need for C++11 compiler for use from C++
#959 tests/benchmark: Fix a (harmless) TOCTTOU
#944 Windows: Fix installer target location of file xmlwf.xml
for CMake
#953 Windows: Address warning -Wunknown-warning-option
about -Wno-pedantic-ms-format from LLVM MinGW
#971 Address Cppcheck warnings
#969 #970 Mass-migrate links from http:// to https://
#947 #958 ..
#974 #975 Document changes since the previous release
#974 #975 Version info bumped from 11:0:10 (libexpat*.so.1.10.0)
to 11:1:10 (libexpat*.so.1.10.1); see https://verbump.de/
for what these numbers do
- Version info bumped from 9:3:8 to 9:4:8;
see https://verbump.de/ for what these numbers do
</description>
</patchinfo>