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Resource Management Errors Affecting libxml2 package, versions <0:2.9.1-6.amzn2.3.2

medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 2.49% (91st percentile)
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NVD
5.3 medium
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Red Hat
3.7 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN2-LIBXML2-1670709
  • published 27 Sep 2021
  • disclosed 14 Aug 2015
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Introduced: 14 Aug 2015

CVE-2015-1819 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-399 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 libxml2 to version 0:2.9.1-6.amzn2.3.2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2019-1220.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml2 package and not the libxml2 package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

The xmlreader in libxml allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted XML data, related to an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

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