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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-30633: Security patch for golang (ALAS-2022-1635)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-30633: Security patch for golang (ALAS-2022-1635)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/03/2022
Created
10/03/2022
Added
09/30/2022
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

Uncontrolled recursion in Unmarshal in encoding/xml before Go 1.17.12 and Go 1.18.4 allows an attacker to cause a panic due to stack exhaustion via unmarshalling an XML document into a Go struct which has a nested field that uses the 'any' field tag.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-golang

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