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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-4899: Security patch for zstd (ALAS-2023-2140)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-4899: Security patch for zstd (ALAS-2023-2140)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/31/2023
Created
07/21/2023
Added
07/21/2023
Modified
07/21/2023

Description

A vulnerability was found in zstd v1.4.10, where an attacker can supply empty string as an argument to the command line tool to cause buffer overrun.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libzstd
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libzstd-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libzstd-static
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-zstd
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-zstd-debuginfo

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