Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS2023-2025-841
Advisory Released Date: 2025-02-21
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-02-21
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' zip package. (CVE-2021-36090)
Affected Packages:
apache-commons-compress
Issue Correction:
Run dnf update apache-commons-compress --releasever 2023.6.20250218 or dnf update --advisory ALAS2023-2025-841 --releasever 2023.6.20250218 to update your system.
More information on how to update your system can be found on this page: Amazon Linux 2023 documentation
New Packages:
noarch:
apache-commons-compress-1.21-4.amzn2023.0.3.noarch
apache-commons-compress-javadoc-1.21-4.amzn2023.0.3.noarch
src:
apache-commons-compress-1.21-4.amzn2023.0.3.src