Issue Overview:
It was discovered that the “setElementTypePrefix()” function incorrectly extracted XML namespace prefixes. By tricking an application into processing a specially crafted XML file, an attacker could cause unusually high consumption of memory resources and possibly lead to a denial of service. (CVE-2018-20843 __)
In libexpat before 2.2.8, crafted XML input could fool the parser into changing from DTD parsing to document parsing too early; a consecutive call to XML_GetCurrentLineNumber (or XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber) then resulted in a heap-based buffer over-read. (CVE-2019-15903 __)
Affected Packages:
expat
Issue Correction:
Run yum update expat to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
expat-2.1.0-12.24.amzn1.i686
expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-12.24.amzn1.i686
expat-devel-2.1.0-12.24.amzn1.i686
src:
expat-2.1.0-12.24.amzn1.src
x86_64:
expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-12.24.amzn1.x86_64
expat-devel-2.1.0-12.24.amzn1.x86_64
expat-2.1.0-12.24.amzn1.x86_64
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux | 1 | x86_64 | expat | < 2.1.0-12.24.amzn1 | expat-2.1.0-12.24.amzn1.x86_64.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | x86_64 | expat-debuginfo | < 2.1.0-12.24.amzn1 | expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-12.24.amzn1.x86_64.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | i686 | expat-devel | < 2.1.0-12.24.amzn1 | expat-devel-2.1.0-12.24.amzn1.i686.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | i686 | expat | < 2.1.0-12.24.amzn1 | expat-2.1.0-12.24.amzn1.i686.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | i686 | expat-debuginfo | < 2.1.0-12.24.amzn1 | expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-12.24.amzn1.i686.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | src | expat | < 2.1.0-12.24.amzn1 | expat-2.1.0-12.24.amzn1.src.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | x86_64 | expat-devel | < 2.1.0-12.24.amzn1 | expat-devel-2.1.0-12.24.amzn1.x86_64.rpm |