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Medium ALAS2-2023-2320 1 CVE

Moderate: zlib security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Oct 30, 2023 · Updated Nov 1, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-45853: MiniZip in zlib through 1.3 has an integer overflow and resultant heap-based buffer overflow in zipOpenNewFileInZip4_64 via a long filename, comment, or extra field. NOTE: MiniZip is not a supported part of the zlib product.

Fixed packages 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 minizip 0:1.2.7-19.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 minizip-devel 0:1.2.7-19.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 zlib 0:1.2.7-19.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 zlib-debuginfo 0:1.2.7-19.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 zlib-devel 0:1.2.7-19.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 zlib-static 0:1.2.7-19.amzn2.0.3

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 8.8

    pyminizip affected by zlib's integer overflow/heap based buffer overflow vulnerability due to vulnerable dependency

    MiniZip in zlib through 1.3 has an integer overflow and resultant heap-based buffer overflow in zipOpenNewFileInZip4_64 via a long filename, comment, or extra field. NOTE: MiniZip is not a supported part of the zlib product. NOTE: pyminizip through 0.2.6 is a…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-45853.html