ALAS2-2023-2316

Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2316
Advisory Release Date: 2023-10-18 22:08 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-10-19 23:42 Pacific
Severity: Important
Issue Overview:

Amazon Linux customers may have experienced an issue with our repository metadata in all regions. During this time, EC2 instances accessing metadata from our repositories experienced 500 MB of increased disk usage.


Affected Packages:

yum


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 yum to update your system.

New Packages:
noarch:
    yum-3.4.3-158.amzn2.0.7.noarch
    yum-cron-3.4.3-158.amzn2.0.7.noarch

src:
    yum-3.4.3-158.amzn2.0.7.src

Additional References

Red Hat: 

Mitre: