ALAS2-2025-2783 — Important: libxml2 security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-49043: xmlXIncludeAddNode in xinclude.c in libxml2 before 2.11.0 has a use-after-free.

Fixed packages 5

Release	Package	Fixed in
Amazon Linux · 2	libxml2	0:2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.15
Amazon Linux · 2	libxml2-debuginfo	0:2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.15
Amazon Linux · 2	libxml2-devel	0:2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.15
Amazon Linux · 2	libxml2-python	0:2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.15
Amazon Linux · 2	libxml2-static	0:2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.15

Vulnerabilities 1

High 8.1

CVE-2022-49043

xmlXIncludeAddNode in xinclude.c in libxml2 before 2.11.0 has a use-after-free.

xmlsoft libxml2 libxml2 libxml2 Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux

Jan 26, 2025

References

web
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-49043.html