Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-2627
Advisory Release Date: 2024-08-14 19:06 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-08-20 16:40 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' zip package. (CVE-2021-36090)
Affected Packages:
apache-commons-compress
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 apache-commons-compress to update your system.
New Packages:
noarch:
apache-commons-compress-1.5-4.amzn2.0.2.noarch
apache-commons-compress-javadoc-1.5-4.amzn2.0.2.noarch
src:
apache-commons-compress-1.5-4.amzn2.0.2.src