vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2019-15903: Security patch for expat, thunderbird (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 4, 2019
Added
Apr 27, 2020
Modified
Nov 27, 2024

Description

In libexpat before 2.2.8, crafted XML input could fool the parser into changing from DTD parsing to document parsing too early; a consecutive call to XML_GetCurrentLineNumber (or XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber) then resulted in a heap-based buffer over-read.

Solutions

amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-expatamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-expat-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-expat-develamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-expat-staticamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-thunderbirdamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginfo
Title
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