ALAS2-2022-1885

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-43680  

In libexpat through 2.4.9, there is a use-after free caused by overeager destruction of a shared DTD in XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate in out-of-memory situations. (CVE-2022-43680)

ALAS2-2022-1885


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-1885
Advisory Release Date: 2022-12-01 20:31 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-12-06 22:41 Pacific
Severity: Important
References: CVE-2022-43680 

Issue Overview:

In libexpat through 2.4.9, there is a use-after free caused by overeager destruction of a shared DTD in XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate in out-of-memory situations. (CVE-2022-43680)


Affected Packages:

expat


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

New Packages:
aarch64:
    expat-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    expat-devel-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    expat-static-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.2.aarch64

i686:
    expat-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.2.i686
    expat-devel-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.2.i686
    expat-static-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.2.i686
    expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.2.i686

src:
    expat-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.2.src

x86_64:
    expat-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    expat-devel-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    expat-static-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-15.amzn2.0.2.x86_64