vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2024-45490: Security patch for expat (ALAS-2025-1953)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Aug 30, 2024 | Jan 10, 2025 | May 21, 2025 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 30, 2024
Added
Jan 10, 2025
Modified
May 21, 2025
Description
An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. xmlparse.c does not reject a negative length for XML_ParseBuffer.
Solution
amazon-linux-upgrade-expat
References
Rapid7 Labs
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