vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-4449: Security patch for libxml2 (ALAS-2016-719)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P) | Jun 9, 2016 | Jul 14, 2016 | Feb 2, 2018 |
Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 9, 2016
Added
Jul 14, 2016
Modified
Feb 2, 2018
Description
XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in the xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.4, when not in validating mode, allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via unspecified vectors.
Solution
amazon-linux-upgrade-libxml2
References
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