vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-1762: Security patch for libxml2 (ALAS-2016-719)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 23, 2016
Added
Jul 14, 2016
Modified
May 3, 2019

Description

The xmlNextChar function in libxml2 before 2.9.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted XML document.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-libxml2

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