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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-28949: Security patch for php-pear (ALAS-2021-1584)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-28949: Security patch for php-pear (ALAS-2021-1584)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/19/2020
Created
01/09/2021
Added
01/08/2021
Modified
11/26/2024

Description

Archive_Tar through 1.4.10 has :// filename sanitization only to address phar attacks, and thus any other stream-wrapper attack (such as file:// to overwrite files) can still succeed.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-php-pear

References

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