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Red Hat: RHSA-2022-4995-01 Critical: xz Archive Handling Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey June 13, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A critical patch for xz in Red Hat 8.1 resolves a problem related to unauthorized file writing. Continue reading for comprehensive fixes.
An update for xz is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions

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

security advisory security fix important red hat enterprise arbitrary file write write issue xz update

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 E4S (v. 8.1):
Source: xz-5.2.4-4.el8_1.src.rpm
aarch64: xz-5.2.4-4.el8_1.aarch64.rpm xz-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_1.aarch64.rpm xz-debugsource-5.2.4-4.el8_1.aarch64.rpm xz-devel-5.2.4-4.el8_1.aarch64.rpm xz-libs-5.2.4-4.el8_1.aarch64.rpm xz-libs-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_1.aarch64.rpm xz-lzma-compat-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: xz-5.2.4-4.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm xz-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm xz-debugsource-5.2.4-4.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm xz-devel-5.2.4-4.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm xz-libs-5.2.4-4.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm xz-libs-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm xz-lzma-compat-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: xz-5.2.4-4.el8_1.s390x.rpm xz-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_1.s390x.rpm xz-debugsource-5.2.4-4.el8_1.s390x.rpm xz-devel-5.2.4-4.el8_1.s390x.rpm xz-libs-5.2.4-4.el8_1.s390x.rpm xz-libs-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_1.s390x.rpm xz-lzma-compat-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: xz-5.2.4-4.el8_1.x86_64.rpm xz-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_1.i686.rpm xz-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_1.x86_64.rpm xz-debugsource-5.2.4-4.el8_1.i686.rpm xz-debugsource-5.2.4-4.el8_1.x86_64.rpm xz-devel-5.2.4-4.el8_1.i686.rpm xz-devel-5.2.4-4.el8_1.x86_64.rpm xz-libs-5.2.4-4.el8_1.i686.rpm xz-libs-5.2.4-4.el8_1.x86_64.rpm xz-libs-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_1.i686.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:4994-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4994
Issue date: 2022-06-13

Topic

An update for xz is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 UpdateServices for SAP Solutions.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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security fix important red hat enterprise arbitrary file write write issue xz update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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