RHSA-2016:2824Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: expat security update

Published
November 28, 2016
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2016-0718 →

📋 Description

CVE-2016-0718 — expat: Out-of-bounds heap read on crafted input causing crash

🎯 Affected products132

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7)
  • expat-0:2.0.1-13.el6_8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • expat-0:2.0.1-13.el6_8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • expat-0:2.0.1-13.el6_8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • expat-0:2.0.1-13.el6_8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • expat-0:2.0.1-13.el6_8.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • expat-0:2.0.1-13.el6_8.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • expat-0:2.0.1-13.el6_8.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • expat-0:2.0.1-13.el6_8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • expat-0:2.0.1-13.el6_8.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • expat-0:2.0.1-13.el6_8.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • expat-0:2.0.1-13.el6_8.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • expat-0:2.0.1-13.el6_8.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • expat-0:2.0.1-13.el6_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • expat-0:2.0.1-13.el6_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • expat-0:2.0.1-13.el6_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • expat-0:2.0.1-13.el6_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 After installing the updated packages, applications using the Expat library must be restarted for the update to take effect.

🔗 References (4)