Summary
Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-0992: A flaw was found in the libxml2 library. This uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability occurs when processing XML catalogs that contain repeated <nextCatalog> elements pointing to the same downstream catalog. A remote attacker can exploit this by supplying crafted catalogs, causing the parser to redundantly traverse catalog chains. This leads to excessive CPU consumption and degrades application availability, resulting in a denial-of-service condition. CVE-2026-0990: A flaw was found in libxml2, an XML parsing library. This uncontrolled recursion vulnerability occurs in the xmlCatalogXMLResolveURI function when an XML catalog contains a delegate URI entry that references itself. A remote attacker could exploit this configuration-dependent issue by providing a specially crafted XML catalog, leading to infinite recursion and call stack exhaustion. This ultimately results in a segmentation fault, causing a Denial of Service (DoS) by crashing affected applications.
Fixed packages 5
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux · 2 | libxml2 | 0:2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.22 |
| Amazon Linux · 2 | libxml2-debuginfo | 0:2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.22 |
| Amazon Linux · 2 | libxml2-devel | 0:2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.22 |
| Amazon Linux · 2 | libxml2-python | 0:2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.22 |
| Amazon Linux · 2 | libxml2-static | 0:2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.22 |
Vulnerabilities 2
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Medium 5.9
Libxml2: libxml2: denial of service via uncontrolled recursion in xml catalog processing
A flaw was found in libxml2, an XML parsing library. This uncontrolled recursion vulnerability occurs in the xmlCatalogXMLResolveURI function when an XML catalog contains a delegate URI entry that references itself. A remote attacker could exploit this config…
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Low 2.9
Libxml2: libxml2: denial of service via crafted xml catalogs
A flaw was found in the libxml2 library. This uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability occurs when processing XML catalogs that contain repeated <nextCatalog> elements pointing to the same downstream catalog. A remote attacker can exploit this by suppl…