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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-1100: Security patch for zsh (ALAS-2018-1107)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-1100: Security patch for zsh (ALAS-2018-1107)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
04/11/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
12/07/2018
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

zsh through version 5.4.2 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow in the utils.c:checkmailpath function. A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code in the context of another user.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-zsh

References

  • ALAS-2018-1107
  • USN-3764-1
  • CVE-2018-1100

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