Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS2023-2026-1493
Advisory Released Date: 2026-03-25
Advisory Updated Date: 2026-03-25
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
libsodium before ad3004e, in atypical use cases involving certain custom cryptography or untrusted data to crypto_core_ed25519_is_valid_point, mishandles checks for whether an elliptic curve point is valid because it sometimes allows points that aren't in the main cryptographic group. (CVE-2025-69277)
Affected Packages:
libsodium
Issue Correction:
Run dnf update libsodium --releasever 2023.10.20260316 or dnf update --advisory ALAS2023-2026-1493 --releasever 2023.10.20260316 to update your system.
More information on how to update your system can be found on this page: Amazon Linux 2023 documentation
New Packages:
aarch64:
libsodium-debuginfo-1.0.19-5.amzn2023.aarch64
libsodium-static-1.0.19-5.amzn2023.aarch64
libsodium-1.0.19-5.amzn2023.aarch64
libsodium-devel-1.0.19-5.amzn2023.aarch64
libsodium-debugsource-1.0.19-5.amzn2023.aarch64
src:
libsodium-1.0.19-5.amzn2023.src
x86_64:
libsodium-static-1.0.19-5.amzn2023.x86_64
libsodium-1.0.19-5.amzn2023.x86_64
libsodium-debuginfo-1.0.19-5.amzn2023.x86_64
libsodium-devel-1.0.19-5.amzn2023.x86_64
libsodium-debugsource-1.0.19-5.amzn2023.x86_64