Low ALAS2023-2023-292 1 CVE

Low: gawk security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Aug 17, 2023 · Updated Aug 23, 2023

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-4156: A heap out-of-bounds read flaw was found in builtin.c in the gawk package which may result in a crash of the software.

Fixed packages 6

Release	Package	Fixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023	gawk	0:5.1.0-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023	gawk-all-langpacks	0:5.1.0-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023	gawk-debuginfo	0:5.1.0-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023	gawk-debugsource	0:5.1.0-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023	gawk-devel	0:5.1.0-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023	gawk-doc	0:5.1.0-3.amzn2023.0.3

Vulnerabilities 1

Medium 4.4

CVE-2023-4156

Heap out of bound read in builtin.c

A heap out-of-bounds read flaw was found in builtin.c in the gawk package. This issue may lead to a crash and could be used to read sensitive information.

Red Hat Fedora Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Linux Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux

Sep 25, 2023

References

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https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-4156.html