Summary
Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-13259: It was discovered that zsh does not properly validate the shebang of input files and it truncates it to the first 64 bytes. A local attacker may use this flaw to make zsh execute a different binary than what is expected, named with a substring of the shebang one. 1626184: CVE-2018-13259 zsh: Improper handling of shebang line longer than 64 CVE-2018-0502: An issue was discovered in zsh before 5.6. The beginning of a #! script file was mishandled, potentially leading to an execve call to a program named on the second line. 1626187: CVE-2018-0502 zsh: Improper parsing of the shebang line with special chars
Fixed packages 3
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux · 2 | zsh | 0:5.5.1-2.amzn2.0.1 |
| Amazon Linux · 2 | zsh-debuginfo | 0:5.5.1-2.amzn2.0.1 |
| Amazon Linux · 2 | zsh-html | 0:5.5.1-2.amzn2.0.1 |
Vulnerabilities 2
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Unscored —
An issue was discovered in zsh before 5.6. The beginning of a #! script file was mishandled, potentially leading to an …
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Unscored —
An issue was discovered in zsh before 5.6. Shebang lines exceeding 64 characters were truncated, potentially leading to…