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amazonAmazonALAS-2012-143
HistoryDec 06, 2012 - 9:22 p.m.

Important: libxml2

2012-12-0621:22:00
alas.aws.amazon.com
15

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.044 Low

EPSS

Percentile

92.4%

Issue Overview:

A heap-based buffer underflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 decoded certain entities. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted XML file that, when opened in an application linked against libxml2, would cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2012-5134)

Affected Packages:

libxml2

Issue Correction:
Run yum update libxml2 to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    libxml2-python-2.7.8-10.25.amzn1.i686  
    libxml2-static-2.7.8-10.25.amzn1.i686  
    libxml2-2.7.8-10.25.amzn1.i686  
    libxml2-debuginfo-2.7.8-10.25.amzn1.i686  
    libxml2-devel-2.7.8-10.25.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    libxml2-2.7.8-10.25.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    libxml2-static-2.7.8-10.25.amzn1.x86_64  
    libxml2-debuginfo-2.7.8-10.25.amzn1.x86_64  
    libxml2-2.7.8-10.25.amzn1.x86_64  
    libxml2-python-2.7.8-10.25.amzn1.x86_64  
    libxml2-devel-2.7.8-10.25.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2012-5134

Mitre: CVE-2012-5134

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.044 Low

EPSS

Percentile

92.4%