High RHSA-2022:4994 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: xz security update

Published Sep 13, 2024 · Updated Aug 7, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 7

Release	Package	Fixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 8.1 E4S rhel_e4s:8.1::baseos	xz	0:5.2.4-4.el8_1
Red Hat · RHEL 8.1 E4S rhel_e4s:8.1::baseos	xz-debuginfo	0:5.2.4-4.el8_1
Red Hat · RHEL 8.1 E4S rhel_e4s:8.1::baseos	xz-debugsource	0:5.2.4-4.el8_1
Red Hat · RHEL 8.1 E4S rhel_e4s:8.1::baseos	xz-devel	0:5.2.4-4.el8_1
Red Hat · RHEL 8.1 E4S rhel_e4s:8.1::baseos	xz-libs	0:5.2.4-4.el8_1
Red Hat · RHEL 8.1 E4S rhel_e4s:8.1::baseos	xz-libs-debuginfo	0:5.2.4-4.el8_1
Red Hat · RHEL 8.1 E4S rhel_e4s:8.1::baseos	xz-lzma-compat-debuginfo	0:5.2.4-4.el8_1

Vulnerabilities 1

High 8.8

CVE-2022-1271

An arbitrary file write vulnerability was found in GNU gzip's zgrep utility. When zgrep is applied on the attacker's ch…

gzip xz xz-utils gzip Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine

Aug 31, 2022

References

article
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2073310
advisory
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2022/rhsa-2022_4994.json
report
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1271
advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1271
advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1271