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Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-436
Advisory Release Date: 2014-10-28 17:13 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-11-01 14:05 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
A resource consumption issue was found in the way Xerces-J handled XML declarations. A remote attacker could use an XML document with a specially crafted declaration using a long pseudo-attribute name that, when parsed by an application using Xerces-J, would cause that application to use an excessive amount of CPU.
Affected Packages:
xerces-j2
Issue Correction:
Run yum update xerces-j2 to update your system.
New Packages:
noarch:
xerces-j2-javadoc-apis-2.7.1-12.7.19.amzn1.noarch
xerces-j2-javadoc-xni-2.7.1-12.7.19.amzn1.noarch
xerces-j2-javadoc-other-2.7.1-12.7.19.amzn1.noarch
xerces-j2-demo-2.7.1-12.7.19.amzn1.noarch
xerces-j2-2.7.1-12.7.19.amzn1.noarch
xerces-j2-scripts-2.7.1-12.7.19.amzn1.noarch
xerces-j2-javadoc-impl-2.7.1-12.7.19.amzn1.noarch
src:
xerces-j2-2.7.1-12.7.19.amzn1.src