Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-2506
Advisory Release Date: 2024-03-27 21:32 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-03-27 21:32 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
A vulnerability was found in JWCrypto. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) attack and possible password brute-force and dictionary attacks to be more resource-intensive. This issue can result in a large amount of computational consumption, causing a denial of service attack. (CVE-2023-6681)
Affected Packages:
python-jwcrypto
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 python-jwcrypto to update your system.
New Packages:
noarch:
python-jwcrypto-0.4.2-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
src:
python-jwcrypto-0.4.2-1.amzn2.0.1.src