Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-1795
Advisory Release Date: 2022-05-20 22:22 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-05-24 13:37 Pacific
Severity:
Critical
Issue Overview:
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. (CVE-2022-25235)
Affected Packages:
xmlrpc-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 xmlrpc-c to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
xmlrpc-c-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
xmlrpc-c-c++-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
xmlrpc-c-client-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
xmlrpc-c-client++-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
xmlrpc-c-devel-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
xmlrpc-c-apps-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
xmlrpc-c-debuginfo-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
i686:
xmlrpc-c-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.i686
xmlrpc-c-c++-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.i686
xmlrpc-c-client-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.i686
xmlrpc-c-client++-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.i686
xmlrpc-c-devel-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.i686
xmlrpc-c-apps-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.i686
xmlrpc-c-debuginfo-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.i686
src:
xmlrpc-c-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.src
x86_64:
xmlrpc-c-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
xmlrpc-c-c++-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
xmlrpc-c-client-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
xmlrpc-c-client++-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
xmlrpc-c-devel-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
xmlrpc-c-apps-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
xmlrpc-c-debuginfo-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.x86_64