Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS2ECS-2025-049
Advisory Released Date: 2025-03-06
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-03-06
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
An attacker can craft an input to the Parse functions that would be processed non-linearly with respect to its length, resulting in extremely slow parsing. This could cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-45338)
Affected Packages:
ecs-init
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 - Ecs Extra. Visit this page to learn more about Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Extras and this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update ecs-init to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
ecs-init-1.89.2-1.amzn2.aarch64
src:
ecs-init-1.89.2-1.amzn2.src
x86_64:
ecs-init-1.89.2-1.amzn2.x86_64