Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS2023-2025-879
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
Issue Correction:
Run dnf update ecs-init --releasever 2023.6.20250303 or dnf update --advisory ALAS2023-2025-879 --releasever 2023.6.20250303 to update your system.
More information on how to update your system can be found on this page: Amazon Linux 2023 documentation
New Packages:
aarch64:
ecs-init-1.89.2-1.amzn2023.aarch64
src:
ecs-init-1.89.2-1.amzn2023.src
x86_64:
ecs-init-1.89.2-1.amzn2023.x86_64