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[ALAS-2022-1573] Amazon Linux AMI 2014.03 - ALAS-2022-1573: critical priority package update for expat

Severity Critical
Affected Packages 6
CVEs 2
Info Packages References Vulnerabilities

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux AMI that fix the following vulnerabilities:
CVE-2022-25236:
A flaw was found in expat. Passing one or more namespace separator characters in the "xmlns[:prefix]" attribute values made expat send malformed tag names to the XML processor on top of expat. This issue causes arbitrary code execution depending on how unexpected cases are handled inside the XML processor.

CVE-2022-25235:
A flaw was found in expat. Passing malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences (for example, from start tag names) to the XML processing application on top of expat can lead to arbitrary code execution. This issue is dependent on how invalid UTF-8 is handled inside the XML processor.

Package Affected Version
pkg:rpm/amazonlinux/expat?arch=x86_64&distro=amazonlinux-1 < 2.1.0-12.27.amzn1
pkg:rpm/amazonlinux/expat?arch=i686&distro=amazonlinux-1 < 2.1.0-12.27.amzn1
pkg:rpm/amazonlinux/expat-devel?arch=x86_64&distro=amazonlinux-1 < 2.1.0-12.27.amzn1
pkg:rpm/amazonlinux/expat-devel?arch=i686&distro=amazonlinux-1 < 2.1.0-12.27.amzn1
pkg:rpm/amazonlinux/expat-debuginfo?arch=x86_64&distro=amazonlinux-1 < 2.1.0-12.27.amzn1
pkg:rpm/amazonlinux/expat-debuginfo?arch=i686&distro=amazonlinux-1 < 2.1.0-12.27.amzn1
ID
ALAS-2022-1573
Severity
critical
URL
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2022-1573.html
Published
2022-03-09T22:48:00
(2 years ago)
Modified
2022-03-10T19:12:00
(2 years ago)
Rights
Amazon Linux Security Team
Other Advisories
Type Package URL Namespace Name / Product Version Distribution / Platform Arch Patch / Fix
Affected pkg:rpm/amazonlinux/expat?arch=x86_64&distro=amazonlinux-1 amazonlinux expat < 2.1.0-12.27.amzn1 amazonlinux-1 x86_64
Affected pkg:rpm/amazonlinux/expat?arch=i686&distro=amazonlinux-1 amazonlinux expat < 2.1.0-12.27.amzn1 amazonlinux-1 i686
Affected pkg:rpm/amazonlinux/expat-devel?arch=x86_64&distro=amazonlinux-1 amazonlinux expat-devel < 2.1.0-12.27.amzn1 amazonlinux-1 x86_64
Affected pkg:rpm/amazonlinux/expat-devel?arch=i686&distro=amazonlinux-1 amazonlinux expat-devel < 2.1.0-12.27.amzn1 amazonlinux-1 i686
Affected pkg:rpm/amazonlinux/expat-debuginfo?arch=x86_64&distro=amazonlinux-1 amazonlinux expat-debuginfo < 2.1.0-12.27.amzn1 amazonlinux-1 x86_64
Affected pkg:rpm/amazonlinux/expat-debuginfo?arch=i686&distro=amazonlinux-1 amazonlinux expat-debuginfo < 2.1.0-12.27.amzn1 amazonlinux-1 i686
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