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Medium ALAS2023-2026-3351 2 CVEs

Moderate: soci-snapshotter security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Nov 2, 2026 · Updated Nov 2, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-61801: The `github.com/moby/sys/user` package provides Go utilities for parsing and looking up entries in Unix-style user and group database files. Versions before 0.4.1 do not sufficiently limit entries when parsing `/etc/passwd`- or `/etc/group`-style files, allowing an attacker who can supply a specially crafted file to cause excessive memory consumption and potentially terminate the affected process due to an out-of-memory condition. This issue is patched in version 0.4.1. As a workaround, avoid parsing attacker-controlled user or group database files, or validate and limit untrusted input before parsing it. CVE-2026-111943: Due to security concerns regarding a small set of intermediate certificates issued by a specific Certificate Authority (CA), the Go's crypto/x509 package is updated to not trust certificates issued by the affected intermediate certificates. This would prevent possible future misuse of certificate issued by the affected intermediate certificates. Amazon Linux golang-based packages are being rebuilt with the fixed crypto/x509 package described in CVE-2026-111943 as a defense-in-depth measure against the eMudhra intermediate CA certificates with weak private keys. By default, Go programs on Amazon Linux use the system-wide certificate authority (CA) store. Therefore, the primary fix for this issue is the ca-certificates update that removes the root CA certificates that signed the affected intermediates. Customers should ensure that update is installed: https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2026-113470.html

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 soci-snapshotter 0:0.16.1-1.amzn2023.0.1

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Medium 6.8
    CVE-2026-111943 Public exploit

    Distrust compromised intermediate certificates in crypto/x509

    On most platforms, Go uses the given system root certificates. However, in some narrower cases, the system trust stores may not be updated without further action. To defend against the narrower set of cases that may remain affected, a denylist was added in cr…

  • Medium 5.5

    github.com/moby/sys/user has a possible DoS via unbounded parsing of user and group database files

    The `github.com/moby/sys/user` package provides Go utilities for parsing and looking up entries in Unix-style user and group database files. Versions before 0.4.1 do not sufficiently limit entries when parsing `/etc/passwd`- or `/etc/group`-style files, allow…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-111943.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-61801.html