ALAS2027-2026-204


Amazon Linux 2027 Preview Security Advisory: ALAS2027-2026-204
Advisory Release Date: 2026-10-12 09:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2026-10-20 15:48 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2027 that fix the following vulnerabilities:
CVE-2026-97689:
urllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python. From 1.10.3 until 2.8.0, the HTTPResponse.read_chunked and HTTPResponse.stream methods can allocate unbounded memory because the streaming chunk parser buffers the chunk-size field until newline or EOF without a length bound. The trigger is that a malicious server returns Transfer-Encoding: chunked followed by a very long run of bytes without a newline. The attack mechanism is that a malicious HTTP server sends a very long unterminated chunk-size line. The impact is that unbounded memory allocation can exhaust the client process. This issue is fixed in version 2.8.0.


Affected Packages:

python-urllib3


Issue Correction:
Run dnf update python-urllib3 or dnf update --advisory ALAS2027-2026-204 to update your system.

New Packages:
noarch:
    python3-urllib3-2.6.3-1.amzn2027.0.3.noarch

src:
    python-urllib3-2.6.3-1.amzn2027.0.3.src