vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2023-4156: Security patch for gawk (ALAS-2023-2357)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 25, 2023
Added
Dec 5, 2023
Modified
Jan 28, 2025

Description

A heap out-of-bounds read flaw was found in builtin.c in the gawk package. This issue may lead to a crash and could be used to read sensitive information.

Solution(s)

amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-gawkamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-gawk-debuginfo
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