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High ALAS2-2022-1885 1 CVE

Important: expat security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Dec 1, 2022 · Updated Dec 6, 2022

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-43680: In libexpat through 2.4.9, there is a use-after free caused by overeager destruction of a shared DTD in XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate in out-of-memory situations.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 expat 0:2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 expat-debuginfo 0:2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 expat-devel 0:2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 expat-static 0:2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-43680.html