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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2017-15412: Security patch for libxml2 (ALAS-2020-1466)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2017-15412: Security patch for libxml2 (ALAS-2020-1466)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/28/2018
Created
07/24/2020
Added
07/23/2020
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

Use after free in libxml2 before 2.9.5, as used in Google Chrome prior to 63.0.3239.84 and other products, allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libxml2
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libxml2-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libxml2-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libxml2-python
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libxml2-static

References

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