vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-41072: Security patch for squashfs-tools (ALAS-2023-2152)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P) | Sep 14, 2021 | Jul 21, 2023 | Nov 26, 2024 |
Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 14, 2021
Added
Jul 21, 2023
Modified
Nov 26, 2024
Description
squashfs_opendir in unsquash-2.c in Squashfs-Tools 4.5 allows Directory Traversal, a different vulnerability than CVE-2021-40153. A squashfs filesystem that has been crafted to include a symbolic link and then contents under the same filename in a filesystem can cause unsquashfs to first create the symbolic link pointing outside the expected directory, and then the subsequent write operation will cause the unsquashfs process to write through the symbolic link elsewhere in the filesystem.
Solutions
amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-squashfs-toolsamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-squashfs-tools-debuginfo
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