vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-40303: Security patch for libxml2 (ALAS-2023-1743)
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | 2022-10-22 | 2023-05-04 | 2025-05-21 |
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

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