Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2018-1124
Advisory Release Date: 2018-12-06 20:30 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2018-12-08 01:51 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
A stack exhaustion flaw was found in the way Xerces-C XML parser handled deeply nested DTDs. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash an application using Xerces-C by tricking it into processing specially crafted data.(CVE-2016-4463)
Affected Packages:
xerces-c
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update xerces-c to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
xerces-c-3.1.1-9.amzn2.aarch64
xerces-c-devel-3.1.1-9.amzn2.aarch64
xerces-c-debuginfo-3.1.1-9.amzn2.aarch64
i686:
xerces-c-3.1.1-9.amzn2.i686
xerces-c-devel-3.1.1-9.amzn2.i686
xerces-c-debuginfo-3.1.1-9.amzn2.i686
noarch:
xerces-c-doc-3.1.1-9.amzn2.noarch
src:
xerces-c-3.1.1-9.amzn2.src
x86_64:
xerces-c-3.1.1-9.amzn2.x86_64
xerces-c-devel-3.1.1-9.amzn2.x86_64
xerces-c-debuginfo-3.1.1-9.amzn2.x86_64