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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2023-28484: Security patch for libxml2 (ALAS-2023-1743)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2023-28484: Security patch for libxml2 (ALAS-2023-1743)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/11/2023
Created
05/05/2023
Added
05/04/2023
Modified
05/12/2023

Description

In libxml2 before 2.10.4, parsing of certain invalid XSD schemas can lead to a NULL pointer dereference and subsequently a segfault. This occurs in xmlSchemaFixupComplexType in xmlschemas.c.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-libxml2

References

  • ALAS-2023-1743
  • CVE-2023-28484

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