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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-0070: Security patch for log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch (ALAS-2022-1580)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-0070: Security patch for log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch (ALAS-2022-1580)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
04/18/2022
Created
04/23/2022
Added
04/20/2022
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

Incomplete fix for CVE-2021-3100. The Apache Log4j hotpatch package starting with log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch-1.1-16 will now explicitly mimic the Linux capabilities and cgroups of the target Java process that the hotpatch is applied to.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch

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