vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-24977: Security patch for libxml2 (ALAS-2023-1743)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P) | Sep 4, 2020 | May 4, 2023 | May 4, 2023 |
Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 4, 2020
Added
May 4, 2023
Modified
May 4, 2023
Description
GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 50f06b3e.
Solution
amazon-linux-upgrade-libxml2
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