vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-43680: Security patch for expat (ALAS-2022-1655)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 24, 2022
Added
Dec 10, 2022
Modified
May 21, 2025

Description

In libexpat through 2.4.9, there is a use-after free caused by overeager destruction of a shared DTD in XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate in out-of-memory situations.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-expat
Title
NEW

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