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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-23852: Security patch for expat (ALAS-2022-1754)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-23852: Security patch for expat (ALAS-2022-1754)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/24/2022
Created
07/16/2022
Added
07/04/2022
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has a signed integer overflow in XML_GetBuffer, for configurations with a nonzero XML_CONTEXT_BYTES.

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

References

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