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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-4449: Security patch for libxml2 (ALAS-2016-719)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-4449: Security patch for libxml2 (ALAS-2016-719)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/09/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/14/2016
Modified
02/02/2018

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(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-libxml2

References

  • RHSA-2016:1292
  • RHSA-2016:2957
  • ALAS-2016-719
  • APPLE-SA-2016-07-18-1
  • APPLE-SA-2016-07-18-2
  • APPLE-SA-2016-07-18-3
  • APPLE-SA-2016-07-18-4
  • APPLE-SA-2016-07-18-6
  • 90865
  • 1036348
  • USN-2994-1
  • DLA-503-1
  • DSA-3593
  • CVE-2016-4449
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