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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-7595: Security patch for libxml2 (ALAS-2020-1438)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-7595: Security patch for libxml2 (ALAS-2020-1438)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/21/2020
Created
10/29/2020
Added
10/28/2020
Modified
10/28/2020

Description

xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.10 has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-libxml2

References

  • ALAS-2020-1438
  • USN-4274-1
  • CVE-2020-7595

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