ALAS2-2023-1916


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1916
Advisory Release Date: 2023-01-18 00:17 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-01-20 23:03 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

Apache Commons BCEL has a number of APIs that would normally only allow changing specific class characteristics. However, due to an out-of-bounds writing issue, these APIs can be used to produce arbitrary bytecode. This could be abused in applications that pass attacker-controllable data to those APIs, giving the attacker more control over the resulting bytecode than otherwise expected. Update to Apache Commons BCEL 6.6.0. (CVE-2022-42920)


Affected Packages:

bcel


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.


Issue Correction:
Run yum update bcel to update your system.

New Packages:
noarch:
    bcel-5.2-18.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    bcel-javadoc-5.2-18.amzn2.0.1.noarch

src:
    bcel-5.2-18.amzn2.0.1.src