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Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-340
Advisory Release Date: 2014-05-21 10:29 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-18 00:35 Pacific
Severity:
Low
References:
CVE-2013-2877
Issue Overview:
parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.0, as used in Google Chrome before 28.0.1500.71 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a document that ends abruptly, related to the lack of certain checks for the XML_PARSER_EOF state.
Affected Packages:
libxml2
Issue Correction:
Run yum update libxml2 to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
libxml2-2.9.1-1.1.27.amzn1.i686
libxml2-static-2.9.1-1.1.27.amzn1.i686
libxml2-devel-2.9.1-1.1.27.amzn1.i686
libxml2-python-2.9.1-1.1.27.amzn1.i686
libxml2-debuginfo-2.9.1-1.1.27.amzn1.i686
src:
libxml2-2.9.1-1.1.27.amzn1.src
x86_64:
libxml2-devel-2.9.1-1.1.27.amzn1.x86_64
libxml2-python-2.9.1-1.1.27.amzn1.x86_64
libxml2-static-2.9.1-1.1.27.amzn1.x86_64
libxml2-debuginfo-2.9.1-1.1.27.amzn1.x86_64
libxml2-2.9.1-1.1.27.amzn1.x86_64