[New-bugs-announce] [issue30947] Update embeded copy of libexpat to 2.2.2

STINNER Victor report at bugs.python.org
Mon Jul 17 10:18:15 EDT 2017


New submission from STINNER Victor:

libexpat released a new version 2.2.2 which seems to contain 2 or 3 security fixes. I'm not sure that Python is affected by these bugs.

https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_2_2/expat/Changes#L5

Release 2.2.2 Wed July 12 2017
        Security fixes:
             #43  Protect against compilation without any source of high
                    quality entropy enabled, e.g. with CMake build system;
                    commit ff0207e6076e9828e536b8d9cd45c9c92069b895
             #60  Windows with _UNICODE:
                    Unintended use of LoadLibraryW with a non-wide string
                    resulted in failure to load advapi32.dll and degradation
                    in quality of used entropy when compiled with _UNICODE for
                    Windows; you can launch existing binaries with
                    EXPAT_ENTROPY_DEBUG=1 in the environment to inspect the
                    quality of entropy used during runtime; commits
                    * 95b95032f907ef1cd17ee7a9a1768010a825d61d
                    * 73a5a2e9c081f49f2d775cf7ced864158b68dc80
   [MOX-006]      Fix non-NULL parser parameter validation in XML_Parse;
                    resulted in NULL dereference, previously;
                    commit ac256dafdffc9622ab0dc2c62fcecb0dfcfa71fe

        Bug fixes:
             #69  Fix improper use of unsigned long long integer literals

        Other changes:
             #73  Start requiring a C99 compiler
             #49  Fix "==" Bashism in configure script
             #50  Fix too eager getrandom detection for Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
             #52    and macOS
             #51  Address lack of stdint.h in Visual Studio 2003 to 2008
             #58  Address compile warnings
             #68  Fix "./buildconf.sh && ./configure" for some versions
                    of Dash for /bin/sh
             #72  CMake: Ease use of Expat in context of a parent project
                    with multipe CMakeLists.txt files
             #72  CMake: Resolve mistaken executable permissions
             #76  Address compile warning with -DNDEBUG (not recommended!)
             #77  Address compile warning about macro redefinition

        Special thanks to:
            Alexander Bluhm
            Ben Boeckel
            Cătălin Răceanu
            Kerin Millar
            László Böszörményi
            S. P. Zeidler
            Segev Finer
            Václav Slavík
            Victor Stinner
            Viktor Szakats
                 and
Radically Open Security

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Previous issue for expat 2.2.1: issue #30694.

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messages: 298525
nosy: christian.heimes, gregory.p.smith, haypo, ned.deily
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Update embeded copy of libexpat to 2.2.2
type: security
versions: Python 3.7

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