ALAS-2025-1953


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2025-1953
Advisory Release Date: 2025-01-06 23:07 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-01-09 14:36 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. xmlparse.c does not reject a negative length for XML_ParseBuffer. (CVE-2024-45490)


Affected Packages:

expat


Issue Correction:
Run yum update expat to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    expat-devel-2.1.0-15.35.amzn1.i686
    expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-15.35.amzn1.i686
    expat-2.1.0-15.35.amzn1.i686

src:
    expat-2.1.0-15.35.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    expat-2.1.0-15.35.amzn1.x86_64
    expat-devel-2.1.0-15.35.amzn1.x86_64
    expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-15.35.amzn1.x86_64