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High ALAS2-2022-1772 1 CVE

Important: zlib security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Apr 4, 2022 · Updated Apr 6, 2022

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-25032: An out-of-bounds access flaw was found in zlib, which allows memory corruption when deflating (ex: when compressing) if the input has many distant matches. For some rare inputs with a large number of distant matches (crafted payloads), the buffer into which the compressed or deflated data is written can overwrite the distance symbol table which it overlays. This issue results in corrupted output due to invalid distances, which leads to out-of-bound access, corrupting the memory and potentially crashing the application.

Fixed packages 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 minizip 0:1.2.7-19.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 minizip-devel 0:1.2.7-19.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 zlib 0:1.2.7-19.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 zlib-debuginfo 0:1.2.7-19.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 zlib-devel 0:1.2.7-19.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 zlib-static 0:1.2.7-19.amzn2.0.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-25032.html