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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-23990: Security patch for expat (ALAS-2023-2280)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-23990: Security patch for expat (ALAS-2023-2280)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/26/2022
Created
10/06/2023
Added
10/06/2023
Modified
10/06/2023

Description

Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has an integer overflow in the doProlog function.

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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