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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-22824: Security patch for expat (ALAS-2022-1809)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-22824: Security patch for expat (ALAS-2022-1809)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/10/2022
Created
09/30/2022
Added
09/30/2022
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

defineAttribute in xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3 has an integer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-expat
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-expat-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-expat-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-expat-static

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