Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2015-595
Advisory Release Date: 2015-09-22 10:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2015-09-22 10:00 Pacific
It was found that the Java Standard Tag Library (JSTL) allowed the processing of untrusted XML documents to utilize external entity references, which could access resources on the host system and, potentially, allowing arbitrary code execution.
Affected Packages:
jakarta-taglibs-standard
Issue Correction:
Run yum update jakarta-taglibs-standard to update your system.
noarch:
jakarta-taglibs-standard-1.1.1-11.7.9.amzn1.noarch
jakarta-taglibs-standard-javadoc-1.1.1-11.7.9.amzn1.noarch
src:
jakarta-taglibs-standard-1.1.1-11.7.9.amzn1.src