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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-24977: Security patch for libxml2 (ALAS-2023-1743)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-24977: Security patch for libxml2 (ALAS-2023-1743)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/04/2020
Created
05/05/2023
Added
05/04/2023
Modified
05/04/2023

Description

GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 50f06b3e.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-libxml2

References

  • ALAS-2023-1743
  • CVE-2020-24977
  • USN-4991-1

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