ALAS-2024-576


Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-576
Advisory Release Date: 2024-03-27 22:12 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-03-27 22:12 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

libexpat through 2.6.1 allows an XML Entity Expansion attack when there is isolated use of external parsers (created via XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate). (CVE-2024-28757)


Affected Packages:

expat


Issue Correction:
Run dnf update expat --releasever 2023.4.20240401 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    expat-debuginfo-2.5.0-1.amzn2023.0.4.aarch64
    expat-debugsource-2.5.0-1.amzn2023.0.4.aarch64
    expat-static-2.5.0-1.amzn2023.0.4.aarch64
    expat-2.5.0-1.amzn2023.0.4.aarch64
    expat-devel-2.5.0-1.amzn2023.0.4.aarch64

src:
    expat-2.5.0-1.amzn2023.0.4.src

x86_64:
    expat-static-2.5.0-1.amzn2023.0.4.x86_64
    expat-debuginfo-2.5.0-1.amzn2023.0.4.x86_64
    expat-devel-2.5.0-1.amzn2023.0.4.x86_64
    expat-debugsource-2.5.0-1.amzn2023.0.4.x86_64
    expat-2.5.0-1.amzn2023.0.4.x86_64