Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS2ECS-2026-098
Advisory Released Date: 2026-03-06
Advisory Updated Date: 2026-03-06
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
net/http: memory exhaustion in Request.ParseForm (CVE-2025-61726)
archive/zip: denial of service when parsing arbitrary ZIP archives (CVE-2025-61728)
crypto/tls: handshake messages may be processed at the incorrect encryption level (CVE-2025-61730)
crypto/tls: Config.Clone copies automatically generated session ticket keys, session resumption does not account for the expiration of full certificate chain (CVE-2025-68121)
Affected Packages:
containerd
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 - Ecs Extra. Visit this page to learn more about Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Extras and this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update containerd or yum update --advisory ALAS2ECS-2026-098 to update your system.
aarch64:
containerd-2.1.5-1.amzn2.0.5.aarch64
containerd-stress-2.1.5-1.amzn2.0.5.aarch64
containerd-debuginfo-2.1.5-1.amzn2.0.5.aarch64
src:
containerd-2.1.5-1.amzn2.0.5.src
x86_64:
containerd-2.1.5-1.amzn2.0.5.x86_64
containerd-stress-2.1.5-1.amzn2.0.5.x86_64
containerd-debuginfo-2.1.5-1.amzn2.0.5.x86_64