ALAS2-2022-1795

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-25235  

A flaw was found in expat. Passing malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences (for example, from start tag names) to the XML processing application on top of expat can lead to arbitrary code execution. This issue is dependent on how invalid UTF-8 is handled inside the XML processor. (CVE-2022-25235)

ALAS2-2022-1795


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-1795
Advisory Release Date: 2022-05-20 22:22 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-05-24 13:37 Pacific
Severity: Critical
References: CVE-2022-25235 

Issue Overview:

A flaw was found in expat. Passing malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences (for example, from start tag names) to the XML processing application on top of expat can lead to arbitrary code execution. This issue is dependent on how invalid UTF-8 is handled inside the XML processor. (CVE-2022-25235)


Affected Packages:

xmlrpc-c


Issue Correction:
Run yum update xmlrpc-c to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    xmlrpc-c-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-c++-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-client-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-client++-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-devel-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-apps-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-debuginfo-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.aarch64

i686:
    xmlrpc-c-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.i686
    xmlrpc-c-c++-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.i686
    xmlrpc-c-client-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.i686
    xmlrpc-c-client++-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.i686
    xmlrpc-c-devel-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.i686
    xmlrpc-c-apps-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.i686
    xmlrpc-c-debuginfo-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.i686

src:
    xmlrpc-c-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.src

x86_64:
    xmlrpc-c-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-c++-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-client-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-client++-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-devel-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-apps-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-debuginfo-1.32.5-1905.svn2451.amzn2.0.2.x86_64