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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2022-4991 Important: xz File Write Risk

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Calendar Grey June 13, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The crucial xz upgrade from Red Hat tackles a significant arbitrary file write vulnerability, boosting both user security and system efficiency.
An update for xz is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

XZ Utils is an integrated collection of user-space file compression utilities based on the Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain algorithm (LZMA), which performs lossless data compression. The algorithm provides a high compression ratio while keeping the decompression time short.
Security Fix(es):
* gzip: arbitrary-file-write vulnerability (CVE-2022-1271)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1271 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: xz-5.2.4-4.el8_6.src.rpm
aarch64: xz-5.2.4-4.el8_6.aarch64.rpm xz-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_6.aarch64.rpm xz-debugsource-5.2.4-4.el8_6.aarch64.rpm xz-devel-5.2.4-4.el8_6.aarch64.rpm xz-libs-5.2.4-4.el8_6.aarch64.rpm xz-libs-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_6.aarch64.rpm xz-lzma-compat-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: xz-5.2.4-4.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm xz-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm xz-debugsource-5.2.4-4.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm xz-devel-5.2.4-4.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm xz-libs-5.2.4-4.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm xz-libs-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm xz-lzma-compat-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: xz-5.2.4-4.el8_6.s390x.rpm xz-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_6.s390x.rpm xz-debugsource-5.2.4-4.el8_6.s390x.rpm xz-devel-5.2.4-4.el8_6.s390x.rpm xz-libs-5.2.4-4.el8_6.s390x.rpm xz-libs-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_6.s390x.rpm xz-lzma-compat-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_6.s390x.rpm
x86_64: xz-5.2.4-4.el8_6.x86_64.rpm xz-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_6.i686.rpm xz-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_6.x86_64.rpm xz-debugsource-5.2.4-4.el8_6.i686.rpm xz-debugsource-5.2.4-4.el8_6.x86_64.rpm xz-devel-5.2.4-4.el8_6.i686.rpm xz-devel-5.2.4-4.el8_6.x86_64.rpm xz-libs-5.2.4-4.el8_6.i686.rpm xz-libs-5.2.4-4.el8_6.x86_64.rpm xz-libs-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_6.i686.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:4991-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4991
Issue date: 2022-06-13

Topic

An update for xz is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory red hat important linux arbitrary-file-write

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2073310 - CVE-2022-1271 gzip: arbitrary-file-write vulnerability

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