Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-2710
Advisory Release Date: 2024-12-05 01:02 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-12-19 16:00 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. xmlparse.c does not reject a negative length for XML_ParseBuffer. (CVE-2024-45490)
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.amzn2.0.4.aarch64
expat-devel-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.4.aarch64
expat-static-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.4.aarch64
expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.4.aarch64
i686:
expat-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.4.i686
expat-devel-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.4.i686
expat-static-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.4.i686
expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.4.i686
src:
expat-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.4.src
x86_64:
expat-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.4.x86_64
expat-devel-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.4.x86_64
expat-static-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.4.x86_64
expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.4.x86_64