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Medium ALAS2-2023-2238 2 CVEs

Moderate: amazon-ssm-agent security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Aug 31, 2023 · Updated Sep 23, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-27664: In net/http in Go before 1.18.6 and 1.19.x before 1.19.1, attackers can cause a denial of service because an HTTP/2 connection can hang during closing if shutdown were preempted by a fatal error. CVE-2022-27191: A broken cryptographic algorithm flaw was found in golang.org/x/crypto/ssh. This issue causes a client to fail authentification with RSA keys to servers that reject signature algorithms based on SHA-2, enabling an attacker to crash the server, resulting in a loss of availability.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 amazon-ssm-agent 0:3.2.1377.0-1.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 amazon-ssm-agent-debuginfo 0:3.2.1377.0-1.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-27191.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-27664.html