vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-3705: Security patch for libxml2 (ALAS-2016-719)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | 2016-05-17 | 2016-07-14 | 2018-02-02 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
2016-05-17
Added
2016-07-14
Modified
2018-02-02
Description
The (1) xmlParserEntityCheck and (2) xmlParseAttValueComplex functions in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.3 do not properly keep track of the recursion depth, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references.
Solution
amazon-linux-upgrade-libxml2
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