Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2280
Advisory Release Date: 2023-09-27 22:49 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-10-05 22:15 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has an integer overflow in the doProlog function. (CVE-2022-23990)
A flaw was found in expat. A stack exhaustion in doctype parsing could be triggered by a file with a large number of opening braces, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2022-25313)
Affected Packages:
expat
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 expat to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
expat-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
expat-devel-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
expat-static-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
i686:
expat-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.3.i686
expat-devel-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.3.i686
expat-static-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.3.i686
expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.3.i686
src:
expat-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.3.src
x86_64:
expat-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
expat-devel-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
expat-static-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.3.x86_64