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) | May 17, 2016 | Jul 14, 2016 | Feb 2, 2018 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 17, 2016
Added
Jul 14, 2016
Modified
Feb 2, 2018
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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