ALAS-2022-1585

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)

ALAS-2022-1585


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-1585
Advisory Release Date: 2022-05-20 22:12 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-05-24 01:25 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:
i686:
    xmlrpc-c-debuginfo-1.22.04-r1934.7.amzn1.i686
    xmlrpc-c-apps-1.22.04-r1934.7.amzn1.i686
    xmlrpc-c-1.22.04-r1934.7.amzn1.i686
    xmlrpc-c-c++-1.22.04-r1934.7.amzn1.i686
    xmlrpc-c-client++-1.22.04-r1934.7.amzn1.i686
    xmlrpc-c-client-1.22.04-r1934.7.amzn1.i686
    xmlrpc-c-devel-1.22.04-r1934.7.amzn1.i686

src:
    xmlrpc-c-1.22.04-r1934.7.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    xmlrpc-c-client-1.22.04-r1934.7.amzn1.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-client++-1.22.04-r1934.7.amzn1.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-1.22.04-r1934.7.amzn1.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-debuginfo-1.22.04-r1934.7.amzn1.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-devel-1.22.04-r1934.7.amzn1.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-c++-1.22.04-r1934.7.amzn1.x86_64
    xmlrpc-c-apps-1.22.04-r1934.7.amzn1.x86_64