ALAS2022-2022-080

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)

ALAS2022-2022-080


Amazon Linux 2022 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-080
Advisory Release Date: 2022-05-18 00:43 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-05-19 18:36 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 dnf update --releasever=2022.0.20220518 xmlrpc-c to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-debugsource-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-client-debuginfo-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-client++-debuginfo-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-debuginfo-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-c++-debuginfo-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-client-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-client++-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-apps-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-devel-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64
    xmlrpc-c-c++-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64

i686:
    xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.i686
    xmlrpc-c-debuginfo-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.i686
    xmlrpc-c-c++-debuginfo-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.i686
    xmlrpc-c-debugsource-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.i686
    xmlrpc-c-client++-debuginfo-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.i686
    xmlrpc-c-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.i686
    xmlrpc-c-c++-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.i686
    xmlrpc-c-apps-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.i686
    xmlrpc-c-devel-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.i686
    xmlrpc-c-client-debuginfo-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.i686
    xmlrpc-c-client++-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.i686
    xmlrpc-c-client-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.i686

src:
    xmlrpc-c-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.src

x86_64:
    xmlrpc-c-client-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-c++-debuginfo-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-client-debuginfo-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-debugsource-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-debuginfo-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-client++-debuginfo-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-apps-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-c++-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-client++-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-devel-1.51.0-12.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64