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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-23901: Security patch for re2c (ALAS-2023-2344)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-23901: Security patch for re2c (ALAS-2023-2344)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/29/2022
Created
11/17/2023
Added
11/16/2023
Modified
11/16/2023

Description

A stack overflow re2c 2.2 exists due to infinite recursion issues in src/dfa/dead_rules.cc.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-re2c
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-re2c-debuginfo

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