Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-4217: Security patch for unzip (ALAS-2023-1906)
4
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
08/24/2022
01/25/2023
01/24/2023
01/24/2023
Description
A flaw was found in unzip. The vulnerability occurs due to improper handling of Unicode strings, which can lead to a null pointer dereference. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted zip file, leading to a crash or code execution.
Solution(s)
- amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-unzip
- amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-unzip-debuginfo
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