Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-1588
Advisory Release Date: 2022-05-31 23:47 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-06-09 18:41 Pacific
In Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3, a left shift by 29 (or more) places in the storeAtts function in xmlparse.c can lead to realloc misbehavior (e.g., allocating too few bytes, or only freeing memory). (CVE-2021-45960)
Affected Packages:
expat
Issue Correction:
Run yum update expat to update your system.
i686:
expat-2.1.0-12.28.amzn1.i686
expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-12.28.amzn1.i686
expat-devel-2.1.0-12.28.amzn1.i686
src:
expat-2.1.0-12.28.amzn1.src
x86_64:
expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-12.28.amzn1.x86_64
expat-devel-2.1.0-12.28.amzn1.x86_64
expat-2.1.0-12.28.amzn1.x86_64