vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-40303: Security patch for libxml2 (ALAS-2023-1743)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
2022-10-22
Added
2023-05-04
Modified
2025-05-21

Description

An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.10.3. When parsing a multi-gigabyte XML document with the XML_PARSE_HUGE parser option enabled, several integer counters can overflow. This results in an attempt to access an array at a negative 2GB offset, typically leading to a segmentation fault.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-libxml2
Title
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