Integer overflow in expat - CVE-2022-22825

Vulnerability identifier: #VU59648

CSH Severity: High

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22825

CWE-ID: CWE-190

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Affected software:
expat
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Oracle Linux
SUSE CaaS Platform
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE MicroOS
SUSE Enterprise Storage
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
Anolis OS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
CentOS
IBM AIX
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar
SUSE OpenStack Cloud
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
HPE Helion Openstack
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Oracle Solaris
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit
Slackware Linux
Ubuntu
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem
Junos OS
openEuler
Brocade Fabric OS
AFF66X FW
AFS66X-S
AFS660-C
AFS66X-B
AFS670-V20
AFS65X
AFS67X
AFR677
HPE B-series SN6750B Fibre Channel Switch
HPE B-series SN6700B Fibre Channel Switch
HPE B-series SN6600B Fibre Channel Switch
HPE B-series SN4700B SAN Extension Switch
HPE B-series SN3600B Fibre Channel Switch
HPE B-series SN2600B SAN Extension Switch
HPE SN8600B 8-slot SAN Director Switch
HPE SN8600B 4-slot SAN Director Switch
HPE SN8700B 8-slot SAN Director Switch
HPE SN8700B 4-slot SAN Director Switch
HPE B-series SN6650B Fibre Channel Switch
Brocade 32Gb Fibre Channel SAN Switch for HPE Synergy
cflinuxfs3
Telemetry Dashboard
Storage Defender – Data Protect
Liquidware
Citrix Workspace App
Webex App VDI
EMC ECS
XtremIO X2
jbcs-httpd24-openssl-pkcs11 (Red Hat package)
jbcs-httpd24-openssl-chil (Red Hat package)
jbcs-httpd24-brotli (Red Hat package)
jbcs-httpd24-apr-util (Red Hat package)
jbcs-httpd24-apr (Red Hat package)
jbcs-httpd24-mod_http2 (Red Hat package)
jbcs-httpd24-nghttp2 (Red Hat package)
jbcs-httpd24-mod_md (Red Hat package)
expat (Debian package)
jbcs-httpd24-httpd (Red Hat package)
jbcs-httpd24-mod_security (Red Hat package)
jbcs-httpd24-jansson (Red Hat package)
jbcs-httpd24-curl (Red Hat package)
lib64expat1 (Ubuntu package)
libxmltok1 (Ubuntu package)
libxmltok1t64 (Ubuntu package)
jbcs-httpd24-mod_proxy_cluster (Red Hat package)
xmlrpc-c (Red Hat package)
expat
expat-debugsource
libexpat1-32bit
libexpat1
expat-debuginfo
expat-devel
expat-static
expat (Red Hat package)
libexpat1-debuginfo
libexpat-devel
libexpat1-debuginfo-32bit
expat-debuginfo-32bit
libexpat1 (Ubuntu package)
libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo
expat-32bit-debuginfo
expat-help
dev-libs/expat
mozilla-crashreporter-firefox-debuginfo
firefox-debugsource
firefox
firefox-debuginfo
Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
IBM QRadar Network Security
IBM QRadar Network Packet Capture
Cloud Pak for Security (CP4S)
IBM Qradar SIEM
NetWorker Management Console
IBM Netezza Performance Portal
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes
Tenable Nessus
IBM Netezza Analytics for NPS
Netcool Operations Insight
IBM Tivoli Monitoring
Steel Belted Radius Carrier Edition
IBM Netezza Analytics
Nessus Network Monitor
VMware Horizon Client
Migration Toolkit for Containers
SecurID Authentication Manager
Cisco Jabber
Cisco Webex Meetings
Red Hat OpenShift Serverless
JBoss Core Services
SINEMA Remote Connect Server
Dell EMC Unity Operating Environment (OE)
Dell EMC Unity XT Operating Environment (OE)
Dell EMC Unity VSA Operating Environment (OE)
Juniper Junos Space

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in the lookup() function in xmlparse.c. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger integer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

Install updates from vendor's website.

• https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/539