ALAS2023-2023-068


Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-068
Advisory Release Date: 2023-02-17 20:46 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-02-22 23:32 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


Issue Correction:
Run dnf update xmlrpc-c --releasever=2023.0.20230222 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    xmlrpc-c-client-debuginfo-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-debuginfo-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-client++-debuginfo-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-client-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-debugsource-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-devel-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-c++-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-c++-debuginfo-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-apps-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-client++-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64

src:
    xmlrpc-c-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.src

x86_64:
    xmlrpc-c-c++-debuginfo-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-debuginfo-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-debugsource-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-client-debuginfo-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-apps-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-client++-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-client++-debuginfo-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-client-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-devel-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-c++-1.51.08-2.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64