ALAS2-2023-2010


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2010
Advisory Release Date: 2023-03-30 18:56 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-04-04 22:10 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

Babel.Locale in Babel before 2.9.1 allows attackers to load arbitrary locale .dat files (containing serialized Python objects) via directory traversal, leading to code execution. (CVE-2021-42771)


Affected Packages:

babel


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 babel to update your system.

New Packages:
noarch:
    babel-0.9.6-8.amzn2.0.2.noarch
    python-babel-0.9.6-8.amzn2.0.2.noarch

src:
    babel-0.9.6-8.amzn2.0.2.src