Debian CVE-2022-40674: expat: a use-after-free in the doContent function

Bug #1994107 reported by Yue Tao
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
StarlingX
Fix Released
Medium
Yue Tao

Bug Description

CVE-2022-40674: [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40674]
libexpat before 2.4.9 has a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c.

Score:
cve_id status cvss3Score av ac pr ui ai
CVE-2022-40674 fixed 9.8 N L N N H

References:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-5236-1

['libexpat1_2.2.10-2+deb11u3_amd64.deb===>libexpat1_2.2.10-2+deb11u4_amd64.deb', 'libexpat1-dev_2.2.10-2+deb11u3_amd64.deb===>libexpat1-dev_2.2.10-2+deb11u4_amd64.deb']

Found during September 2022 CVE scan using vulscan

CVE References

Revision history for this message
Ghada Khalil (gkhalil) wrote :

screening: stx.8.0 / medium - CVE meets the stx fix criteria

information type: Public → Public Security
tags: added: stx.8.0 stx.security
Changed in starlingx:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
assignee: nobody → Yue Tao (wrytao)
Revision history for this message
OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Fix proposed to tools (master)

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/tools/+/864162

Changed in starlingx:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Revision history for this message
OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Fix merged to tools (master)

Reviewed: https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/tools/+/864162
Committed: https://opendev.org/starlingx/tools/commit/2ee522337b2bf3cd8c70448f52b09c7678251ba4
Submitter: "Zuul (22348)"
Branch: master

commit 2ee522337b2bf3cd8c70448f52b09c7678251ba4
Author: Yue Tao <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Nov 10 14:37:56 2022 +0800

    Debian: expat: fix CVE-2022-40674

    Upgrade libexpat1 to 2.2.10-2+deb11u4
    Upgrade libexpat1-dev to 2.2.10-2+deb11u4

    Refer to:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-40674

    Test Plan:

    Pass: build all
    Pass: boot

    Closes-Bug: 1994107

    Signed-off-by: Yue Tao <email address hidden>
    Change-Id: Id27696a2c1e0bc8ae86c3238a0774a6e2b0407e4

Changed in starlingx:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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