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Medium ALAS2023-2023-015 1 CVE

Moderate: lz4 security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Feb 17, 2023 · Updated Feb 22, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-3520: There's a flaw in lz4. An attacker who submits a crafted file to an application linked with lz4 may be able to trigger an integer overflow, leading to calling of memmove() on a negative size argument, causing an out-of-bounds write and/or a crash. The greatest impact of this flaw is to availability, with some potential impact to confidentiality and integrity as well.

Fixed packages 7

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 lz4 0:1.9.4-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 lz4-debuginfo 0:1.9.4-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 lz4-debugsource 0:1.9.4-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 lz4-devel 0:1.9.4-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 lz4-libs 0:1.9.4-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 lz4-libs-debuginfo 0:1.9.4-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 lz4-static 0:1.9.4-1.amzn2023.0.2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-3520.html