Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-2717
Advisory Release Date: 2024-12-05 01:02 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-12-19 16:00 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
An issue was discovered in xmllint (from libxml2) before 2.11.8 and 2.12.x before 2.12.7. Formatting error messages with xmllint --htmlout can result in a buffer over-read in xmlHTMLPrintFileContext in xmllint.c. (CVE-2024-34459)
Affected Packages:
libxml2
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 libxml2 to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
libxml2-2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.14.aarch64
libxml2-devel-2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.14.aarch64
libxml2-static-2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.14.aarch64
libxml2-python-2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.14.aarch64
libxml2-debuginfo-2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.14.aarch64
i686:
libxml2-2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.14.i686
libxml2-devel-2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.14.i686
libxml2-static-2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.14.i686
libxml2-python-2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.14.i686
libxml2-debuginfo-2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.14.i686
src:
libxml2-2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.14.src
x86_64:
libxml2-2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.14.x86_64
libxml2-devel-2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.14.x86_64
libxml2-static-2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.14.x86_64
libxml2-python-2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.14.x86_64
libxml2-debuginfo-2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.14.x86_64