Summary
Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-39984: Sigstore Timestamp Authority is a service for issuing RFC 3161 timestamps. Versions 2.0.5 and below contain an authorization bypass vulnerability in the VerifyTimestampResponse function. VerifyTimestampResponse correctly verifies the certificate chain signature, but the TSA-specific constraint checks in VerifyLeafCert uses the first non-CA certificate from the PKCS#7 certificate bag instead of the leaf certificate from the verified chain. An attacker can exploit this by prepending a forged certificate to the certificate bag while the message is signed with an authorized key, causing the library to validate the signature against one certificate but perform authorization checks against another. This vulnerability only affects users of the timestamp-authority/v2/pkg/verification package and does not affect the timestamp-authority service itself or sigstore-go. The issue has been fixed in version 2.0.6. CVE-2026-34986: Go JOSE provides an implementation of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption set of standards in Go, including support for JSON Web Encryption (JWE), JSON Web Signature (JWS), and JSON Web Token (JWT) standards. Prior to 4.1.4 and 3.0.5, decrypting a JSON Web Encryption (JWE) object will panic if the alg field indicates a key wrapping algorithm (one ending in KW, with the exception of A128GCMKW, A192GCMKW, and A256GCMKW) and the encrypted_key field is empty. The panic happens when cipher.KeyUnwrap() in key_wrap.go attempts to allocate a slice with a zero or negative length based on the length of the encrypted_key. This code path is reachable from ParseEncrypted() / ParseEncryptedJSON() / ParseEncryptedCompact() followed by Decrypt() on the resulting object. Note that the parse functions take a list of accepted key algorithms. If the accepted key algorithms do not include any key wrapping algorithms, parsing will fail and the application will be unaffected. This panic is also reachable by calling cipher.KeyUnwrap() directly with any ciphertext parameter less than 16 bytes long, but calling this function directly is less common. Panics can lead to denial of service. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.1.4 and 3.0.5. CVE-2026-32289: Context was not properly tracked across template branches for JS template literals, leading to possibly incorrect escaping of content. This could cause actions within JS template literals to be incorrectly escaped, leading to XSS vulnerabilities. CVE-2026-32288: tar.Reader can allocate an unbounded amount of memory when reading a maliciously-crafted archive containing a large number of sparse regions encoded in the old GNU sparse map format. CVE-2026-32283: If one side of the TLS connection sends multiple key update messages post-handshake in a single record, the connection can deadlock, causing uncontrolled consumption of resources. This can lead to a denial of service. This only affects TLS 1.3. CVE-2026-32282: On Linux, if the target of Root.Chmod is replaced with a symlink while the chmod operation is in progress, Chmod can operate on the target of the symlink, even when the target lies outside the root. CVE-2026-32281: Validating certificate chains which use policies is unexpectedly inefficient when certificates in the chain contain a very large number of policy mappings, possibly causing denial of service. This only affects validation of otherwise trusted certificate chains, issued by a root CA in the VerifyOptions.Roots CertPool, or in the system certificate pool. CVE-2026-32280: During chain building, the amount of work that is done is not correctly limited when a large number of intermediate certificates are passed in VerifyOptions.Intermediates, which can lead to a denial of service. This affects both direct users of crypto/x509 and users of crypto/tls. CVE-2026-27144: The Go compiler (cmd/compile) incorrectly handled no-op interface conversions, preventing correct determination about non-overlapping memory moves, potentially leading to memory corruption at runtime in programs compiled with affected Go versions. CVE-2026-27143: Arithmetic over induction variables in loops were not correctly checked for underflow or overflow in the Go compiler (cmd/compile). As a result, the compiler would allow for invalid indexing to occur at runtime, potentially leading to memory corruption in programs compiled with affected Go versions.
Fixed packages 2
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux · 2 | nerdctl | 0:2.2.2-1.amzn2.0.1 |
| Amazon Linux · 2 | nerdctl-debuginfo | 0:2.2.2-1.amzn2.0.1 |
Vulnerabilities 10
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Critical 9.8
Missing bound checks can lead to memory corruption in safe Go in cmd/compile
Arithmetic over induction variables in loops were not correctly checked for underflow or overflow. As a result, the compiler would allow for invalid indexing to occur at runtime, potentially leading to memory corruption.
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High 7.5
Unexpected work during chain building in crypto/x509
During chain building, the amount of work that is done is not correctly limited when a large number of intermediate certificates are passed in VerifyOptions.Intermediates, which can lead to a denial of service. This affects both direct users of crypto/x509 an…
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High 7.5
Inefficient policy validation in crypto/x509
Validating certificate chains which use policies is unexpectedly inefficient when certificates in the chain contain a very large number of policy mappings, possibly causing denial of service. This only affects validation of otherwise trusted certificate chain…
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High 7.5
Unauthenticated TLS 1.3 KeyUpdate record can cause persistent connection retention and DoS in crypto/tls
If one side of the TLS connection sends multiple key update messages post-handshake in a single record, the connection can deadlock, causing uncontrolled consumption of resources. This can lead to a denial of service. This only affects TLS 1.3.
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High 7.5
Go JOSE affect by a panic in JWE decryption
Go JOSE provides an implementation of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption set of standards in Go, including support for JSON Web Encryption (JWE), JSON Web Signature (JWS), and JSON Web Token (JWT) standards. Prior to 4.1.4 and 3.0.5, decrypting a JS…
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High 7.1
Miscompilation allows memory corruption via CONVNOP-wrapped array copy in cmd/compile
The compiler is meant to unwrap pointers which are the operands of a memory move; a no-op interface conversion prevented the compiler from making the correct determination about non-overlapping moves, potentially leading to memory corruption at runtime.
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Medium 6.4
TOCTOU permits root escape on Linux via Root.Chmod in os in internal/syscall/unix
On Linux, if the target of Root.Chmod is replaced with a symlink while the chmod operation is in progress, Chmod can operate on the target of the symlink, even when the target lies outside the root. The Linux fchmodat syscall silently ignores the AT_SYMLINK_N…
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Medium 6.1
JsBraceDepth Context Tracking Bugs (XSS) in html/template
Context was not properly tracked across template branches for JS template literals, leading to possibly incorrect escaping of content when branches were used. Additionally template actions within JS template literals did not properly track the brace depth, le…
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Medium 5.5
Unbounded allocation for old GNU sparse in archive/tar
tar.Reader can allocate an unbounded amount of memory when reading a maliciously-crafted archive containing a large number of sparse regions encoded in the "old GNU sparse map" format.
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Medium 5.5
Sigstore Timestamp Authority has Improper Certificate Validation in verifier
Sigstore Timestamp Authority is a service for issuing RFC 3161 timestamps. Versions 2.0.5 and below contain an authorization bypass vulnerability in the VerifyTimestampResponse function. VerifyTimestampResponse correctly verifies the certificate chain signatu…
References
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https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-27143.html
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https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-27144.html
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https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-32280.html
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https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-32281.html
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https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-32282.html
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https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-32283.html
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https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-32288.html
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https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-32289.html
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https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-34986.html
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https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-39984.html