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Medium ALSA-2022:2120 1 CVE

Moderate: zsh security update

Published May 10, 2022 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

The zsh shell is a command interpreter usable as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor. Zsh resembles the ksh shell (the Korn shell), but includes many enhancements. Zsh supports command-line editing, built-in spelling correction, programmable command completion, shell functions (with autoloading), a history mechanism, and more.

Security Fix(es):

* zsh: Prompt expansion vulnerability (CVE-2021-45444)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 zsh 5.5.1-9.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 zsh-html 5.5.1-9.el8

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-45444