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Avoid scraping HTML in the amazon provider #8

Closed as duplicate of#776
Closed as duplicate of#776
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Today the amazon provider ported from enterprise scrapes the posted HTML from https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ . However, this can be improved:

# get the release versions...
$ curl -O https://al2022-repos-us-west-2-9761ab97.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/core/releasemd.xml

# from this file you have versions like "2022.0.20221207"... use this to look up the mirror list
$ curl -O https://al2022-repos-us-east-1-9761ab97.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/core/mirrors/2022.0.20221207/x86_64/mirror.list

# the mirror list contains the URL to get the "repomd" index
$ curl -O https://al2022-repos-us-east-1-9761ab97.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/core/guids/581859ea114d36f96a58435ad4169541fe3fccb88e0130c85b3ed542a34171a2/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml

# that index contains the checksums and location for "updateinfo" (contains vulnerability info)
$ curl -O https://al2022-repos-us-east-1-9761ab97.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/core/guids/581859ea114d36f96a58435ad4169541fe3fccb88e0130c85b3ed542a34171a2/x86_64/repodata/updateinfo.xml.gz

$ gunzip updateinfo.xml.gz
$ head updateinfo.xml
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<updates><update status="final" version="1.4" author="linux-security@amazon.com" type="security" from="linux-security@amazon.com"><id>ALAS2022-2021-001</id><title>Amazon Linux 2022 - ALAS2022-2021-001: Medium priority package update for vim</title><issued date="2021-10-26 02:25" /><updated date="2021-10-27 00:24" /><severity>Medium</severity><description>Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2022 that fix the following vulnerabilities:
CVE-2021-3875:
        There's an out-of-bounds read flaw in Vim's ex_docmd.c. An attacker who is capable of tricking a user into opening a specially crafted file could trigger an out-of-bounds read on a memmove operation, potentially causing an impact to application availability.
2014661: CVE-2021-3875 vim: heap-based buffer overflow
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