Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2016-719
Advisory Release Date: 2016-07-14 16:30 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2016-07-14 16:30 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 parsed certain crafted XML input. 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 execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application. (CVE-2016-1834, CVE-2016-1840)
Multiple denial of service flaws were found in libxml2. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, could cause that application to crash. (CVE-2016-1762, CVE-2016-1833, CVE-2016-1835, CVE-2016-1836, CVE-2016-1837, CVE-2016-1838, CVE-2016-1839, CVE-2016-3627, CVE-2016-3705, CVE-2016-4447, CVE-2016-4448, CVE-2016-4449)
Affected Packages:
libxml2
Issue Correction:
Run yum update libxml2 to update your system.
i686:
libxml2-debuginfo-2.9.1-6.3.49.amzn1.i686
libxml2-python27-2.9.1-6.3.49.amzn1.i686
libxml2-2.9.1-6.3.49.amzn1.i686
libxml2-static-2.9.1-6.3.49.amzn1.i686
libxml2-python26-2.9.1-6.3.49.amzn1.i686
libxml2-devel-2.9.1-6.3.49.amzn1.i686
src:
libxml2-2.9.1-6.3.49.amzn1.src
x86_64:
libxml2-static-2.9.1-6.3.49.amzn1.x86_64
libxml2-2.9.1-6.3.49.amzn1.x86_64
libxml2-debuginfo-2.9.1-6.3.49.amzn1.x86_64
libxml2-python26-2.9.1-6.3.49.amzn1.x86_64
libxml2-python27-2.9.1-6.3.49.amzn1.x86_64
libxml2-devel-2.9.1-6.3.49.amzn1.x86_64