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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-16931: Security patch for libxml2 (ALAS-2023-1743)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-16931: Security patch for libxml2 (ALAS-2023-1743)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/23/2017
Created
05/05/2023
Added
05/04/2023
Modified
05/04/2023

Description

parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.5 mishandles parameter-entity references because the NEXTL macro calls the xmlParserHandlePEReference function in the case of a '%' character in a DTD name.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-libxml2

References

  • ALAS-2023-1743
  • CVE-2017-16931

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