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High ALAS2-2020-1439 1 CVE

Important: zsh security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jun 16, 2020 · Updated Jun 17, 2020

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-20044: In Zsh before 5.8, attackers able to execute commands can regain privileges dropped by the --no-PRIVILEGED option. Zsh fails to overwrite the saved uid, so the original privileges can be restored by executing MODULE_PATH=/dir/with/module zmodload with a module that calls setuid(). 1804859: CVE-2019-20044 zsh: insecure dropping of privileges when unsetting PRIVILEGED option

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 zsh 0:5.7.1-6.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 zsh-debuginfo 0:5.7.1-6.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 zsh-html 0:5.7.1-6.amzn2.0.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-20044.html