High ALAS2023-2026-2063 1 CVE

Important: containerd security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Aug 17, 2026 · Updated Aug 17, 2026

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-56852: A norm.Iter can enter an infinite loop when handling input containing invalid UTF-8 bytes.

Fixed packages 5

Release	Package	Fixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023	containerd	0:2.2.5-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023	containerd-debuginfo	0:2.2.5-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023	containerd-debugsource	0:2.2.5-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023	containerd-stress	0:2.2.5-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023	containerd-stress-debuginfo	0:2.2.5-1.amzn2023.0.2

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.5

CVE-2026-56852 Public exploit

Infinite loop on invalid input in golang.org/x/text

A norm.Iter can enter an infinite loop when handling input containing invalid UTF-8 bytes.

golang.org/x/text golang.org/x/text/unicode/norm zot kubescape Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Wolfi Go

Jul 21, 2026

References

web
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-56852.html