ALAS-2024-783


Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-783
Advisory Release Date: 2024-12-05 20:34 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-12-16 13:30 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


Issue Correction:
Run dnf update libxml2 --releasever 2023.6.20241212 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    python3-libxml2-debuginfo-2.10.4-1.amzn2023.0.7.aarch64
    libxml2-debugsource-2.10.4-1.amzn2023.0.7.aarch64
    libxml2-static-2.10.4-1.amzn2023.0.7.aarch64
    libxml2-debuginfo-2.10.4-1.amzn2023.0.7.aarch64
    python3-libxml2-2.10.4-1.amzn2023.0.7.aarch64
    libxml2-2.10.4-1.amzn2023.0.7.aarch64
    libxml2-devel-2.10.4-1.amzn2023.0.7.aarch64

src:
    libxml2-2.10.4-1.amzn2023.0.7.src

x86_64:
    libxml2-debuginfo-2.10.4-1.amzn2023.0.7.x86_64
    libxml2-static-2.10.4-1.amzn2023.0.7.x86_64
    libxml2-debugsource-2.10.4-1.amzn2023.0.7.x86_64
    python3-libxml2-debuginfo-2.10.4-1.amzn2023.0.7.x86_64
    libxml2-devel-2.10.4-1.amzn2023.0.7.x86_64
    libxml2-2.10.4-1.amzn2023.0.7.x86_64
    python3-libxml2-2.10.4-1.amzn2023.0.7.x86_64