Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-479
Advisory Release Date: 2024-01-03 23:20 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-01-08 21:02 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.73 contains a potential Denial of Service (DoS) issue within the Bouncy Castle org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMParser class. This class parses OpenSSL PEM encoded streams containing X.509 certificates, PKCS8 encoded keys, and PKCS7 objects. Parsing a file that has crafted ASN.1 data through the PEMParser causes an OutOfMemoryError, which can enable a denial of service attack. (CVE-2023-33202)
Affected Packages:
bouncycastle
Issue Correction:
Run dnf update bouncycastle --releasever 2023.3.20240108 to update your system.
New Packages:
noarch:
bouncycastle-tls-1.70-4.amzn2023.0.4.noarch
bouncycastle-pkix-1.70-4.amzn2023.0.4.noarch
bouncycastle-mail-1.70-4.amzn2023.0.4.noarch
bouncycastle-pg-1.70-4.amzn2023.0.4.noarch
bouncycastle-1.70-4.amzn2023.0.4.noarch
bouncycastle-util-1.70-4.amzn2023.0.4.noarch
bouncycastle-javadoc-1.70-4.amzn2023.0.4.noarch
src:
bouncycastle-1.70-4.amzn2023.0.4.src