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amazonAmazonALAS-2014-341
HistoryMay 21, 2014 - 10:31 a.m.

Medium: libxml2

2014-05-2110:31:00
alas.aws.amazon.com
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4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.024 Low

EPSS

Percentile

89.7%

Issue Overview:

It was discovered that libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML files, incorrectly performs entity substituton in the doctype prolog, even if the application using libxml2 disabled any entity substitution. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted XML file that, when processed, would lead to the exhaustion of CPU and memory resources or file descriptors.

Affected Packages:

libxml2

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

New Packages:

i686:  
    libxml2-debuginfo-2.9.1-1.1.30.amzn1.i686  
    libxml2-python-2.9.1-1.1.30.amzn1.i686  
    libxml2-2.9.1-1.1.30.amzn1.i686  
    libxml2-devel-2.9.1-1.1.30.amzn1.i686  
    libxml2-static-2.9.1-1.1.30.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    libxml2-2.9.1-1.1.30.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    libxml2-debuginfo-2.9.1-1.1.30.amzn1.x86_64  
    libxml2-devel-2.9.1-1.1.30.amzn1.x86_64  
    libxml2-static-2.9.1-1.1.30.amzn1.x86_64  
    libxml2-2.9.1-1.1.30.amzn1.x86_64  
    libxml2-python-2.9.1-1.1.30.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2014-0191

Mitre: CVE-2014-0191

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.024 Low

EPSS

Percentile

89.7%