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Medium ALAS2-2026-3144 2 CVEs

Moderate: libxml2 security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Feb 5, 2026 · Updated Feb 5, 2026

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

ReleasePackageFixed 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

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-0990.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-0992.html