CVE-2024-8176
CVE-2024-8176: 1 tracked advisory record across Red Hat. Compare vendor sources and published fix guidance.
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1 advisory- Advisory severityHigh7.5
High [CVE-2024-8176] Libexpat: expat: improper restriction of xml entity expansion depth in libexpat
CVE-2024-8176Source published Source updated
A stack overflow vulnerability exists in the libexpat library due to the way it handles recursive entity expansion in XML documents. When parsing an XML document with deeply nested entity references, libexpat can be forced to recurse indefinitely, exhausting the stack space and causing a crash. This issue could lead to denial of service (DoS) or, in some cases, exploitable memory corruption, depending on the environment and library usage. All supported Red Hat offerings are built with the compilation flag (-fstack-clash-protection) which reduces the impact to Moderate. This build configuration blocks the possibility of an attacker gaining arbitrary code execution even if a stack-clash vulnerability, like this one, could be exploited. This vulnerability is rated Moderate because Red Hat…
- Affected products in this advisory
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On
22 more entries in the full advisory.
- Source-reported affected versions
- Affected-version details not available in this record.
- Source-reported fixed versions
- expat-0:2.7.1-1.el10_0
- expat-0:2.2.5-17.el8_10
- xmlrpc-c-0:1.51.0-11.el8_10
- expat-0:2.2.10-1.el8_2
33 more entries in the full advisory.
- Mitigation guidance
- Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.
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