vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-20843: Security patch for expat (ALAS-2020-1513)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 24, 2019
Added
Oct 28, 2020
Modified
Nov 27, 2024

Description

In libexpat in Expat before 2.2.7, XML input including XML names that contain a large number of colons could make the XML parser consume a high amount of RAM and CPU resources while processing (enough to be usable for denial-of-service attacks).

Solution(s)

amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-expatamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-expat-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-expat-develamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-expat-static
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