Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') Affecting java-11-amazon-corretto-javadoc package, versions <1:11.0.6+10-1.amzn2


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.73% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-JAVA11AMAZONCORRETTOJAVADOC-1677853
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed1 Jul 2019

Introduced: 1 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-13118  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-843  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 java-11-amazon-corretto-javadoc to version 1:11.0.6+10-1.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2020-1387.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream java-11-amazon-corretto-javadoc package and not the java-11-amazon-corretto-javadoc package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

In numbers.c in libxslt 1.1.33, a type holding grouping characters of an xsl:number instruction was too narrow and an invalid character/length combination could be passed to xsltNumberFormatDecimal, leading to a read of uninitialized stack data.

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