Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-36
Advisory Release Date: 2012-01-19 20:08 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 15:12 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 decoded entity references with long names. 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-2011-3919)
An out-of-bounds memory read flaw was found in libxml2. 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. (CVE-2011-3905)
Affected Packages:
libxml2
Issue Correction:
Run yum update libxml2 to update your system.
i686:
libxml2-devel-2.7.6-4.11.amzn1.i686
libxml2-static-2.7.6-4.11.amzn1.i686
libxml2-debuginfo-2.7.6-4.11.amzn1.i686
libxml2-python-2.7.6-4.11.amzn1.i686
libxml2-2.7.6-4.11.amzn1.i686
src:
libxml2-2.7.6-4.11.amzn1.src
x86_64:
libxml2-2.7.6-4.11.amzn1.x86_64
libxml2-python-2.7.6-4.11.amzn1.x86_64
libxml2-devel-2.7.6-4.11.amzn1.x86_64
libxml2-debuginfo-2.7.6-4.11.amzn1.x86_64
libxml2-static-2.7.6-4.11.amzn1.x86_64