Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-143
Advisory Release Date: 2012-12-06 21:22 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 17:18 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
A heap-based buffer underflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 decoded certain entities. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted XML file that, when opened in an application linked against libxml2, would cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2012-5134)
Affected Packages:
libxml2
Issue Correction:
Run yum update libxml2 to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
libxml2-python-2.7.8-10.25.amzn1.i686
libxml2-static-2.7.8-10.25.amzn1.i686
libxml2-2.7.8-10.25.amzn1.i686
libxml2-debuginfo-2.7.8-10.25.amzn1.i686
libxml2-devel-2.7.8-10.25.amzn1.i686
src:
libxml2-2.7.8-10.25.amzn1.src
x86_64:
libxml2-static-2.7.8-10.25.amzn1.x86_64
libxml2-debuginfo-2.7.8-10.25.amzn1.x86_64
libxml2-2.7.8-10.25.amzn1.x86_64
libxml2-python-2.7.8-10.25.amzn1.x86_64
libxml2-devel-2.7.8-10.25.amzn1.x86_64