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Medium ALAS2-2018-1124 1 CVE

Moderate: xerces-c security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Dec 6, 2018 · Updated Dec 8, 2018

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-4463: A stack exhaustion flaw was found in the way Xerces-C XML parser handled deeply nested DTDs. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash an application using Xerces-C by tricking it into processing specially crafted data. 1348845: CVE-2016-4463 xerces-c: Stack overflow when parsing deeply nested DTD

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 xerces-c 0:3.1.1-9.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 xerces-c-debuginfo 0:3.1.1-9.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 xerces-c-devel 0:3.1.1-9.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 xerces-c-doc 0:3.1.1-9.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2016-4463 Public exploit EPSS 14%

    Stack-based buffer overflow in Apache Xerces-C++ before 3.1.4 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of s…

    xerces-c xerces-c Debian Ubuntu

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2016-4463.html