vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-4217: Security patch for unzip (ALAS-2023-1906)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 24, 2022
Added
Jan 24, 2023
Modified
Jan 28, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in unzip. The vulnerability occurs due to improper handling of Unicode strings, which can lead to a null pointer dereference. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted zip file, leading to a crash or code execution.

Solutions

amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-unzipamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-unzip-debuginfo
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