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MiracleLinux 7 : expat-2.1.0-14.el7 (AXSA:2022-3129:02)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 294631

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2022-3129:02 advisory.

 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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected expat and / or expat-devel packages.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/14311

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 294631

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2022-3129.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/20/2026

Updated: 1/20/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-45960

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-25315

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:miracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:expat-devel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:expat

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/MiracleLinux/release, Host/MiracleLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/29/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-45960, CVE-2021-46143, CVE-2022-22822, CVE-2022-22823, CVE-2022-22824, CVE-2022-22825, CVE-2022-22826, CVE-2022-22827, CVE-2022-23852, CVE-2022-25235, CVE-2022-25236, CVE-2022-25315