Issued at: 2025-12-27
Updated at: 2025-12-29
Synopsis
Important: mingw-expat security update
Description
Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents. The mingw-expat packages provide a port of the Expat library for MinGW.
Security Fix(es):
* expat: a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-40674)
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 Rocky Linux 8.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.