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High RLSA-2022:4991 1 CVE

Important: xz security update

Published Jun 13, 2022 · Updated Feb 5, 2026

Summary

XZ Utils is an integrated collection of user-space file compression utilities based on the Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain algorithm (LZMA), which performs lossless data compression. The algorithm provides a high compression ratio while keeping the decompression time short.

Security Fix(es):

* gzip: arbitrary-file-write vulnerability (CVE-2022-1271)

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.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 xz 0:5.2.4-4.el8_6

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2073310