vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-23852: Security patch for expat (ALAS-2022-1569)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 24, 2022
Added
Mar 5, 2022
Modified
Mar 5, 2022

Description

Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has a signed integer overflow in XML_GetBuffer, for configurations with a nonzero XML_CONTEXT_BYTES.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-expat
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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