Medium: expat

Issue Overview:

CVE-2016-0718: Out-of-bounds read flaw
An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way Expat processed certain input.
A remote attacker could send specially crafted XML that, when parsed by an
application using the Expat library, would cause that application to crash or,
possibly, execute arbitrary code with the permission of the user running the
application.

Affected Packages:

expat

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

New Packages:

i686:  
    expat-2.1.0-10.21.amzn1.i686  
    expat-devel-2.1.0-10.21.amzn1.i686  
    expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-10.21.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    expat-2.1.0-10.21.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-10.21.amzn1.x86_64  
    expat-devel-2.1.0-10.21.amzn1.x86_64  
    expat-2.1.0-10.21.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2016-0718

Mitre: CVE-2016-0718