ALAS2-2022-1807

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-24675  

A buffer overflow flaw was found in Golang's library encoding/pem. This flaw allows an attacker to use a large PEM input (more than 5 MB) ), causing a stack overflow in Decode, which leads to a loss of availability. (CVE-2022-24675)

ALAS2-2022-1807


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-1807
Advisory Release Date: 2022-07-06 02:44 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-07-14 21:49 Pacific
Severity: Medium
References: CVE-2022-24675 

Issue Overview:

A buffer overflow flaw was found in Golang's library encoding/pem. This flaw allows an attacker to use a large PEM input (more than 5 MB) ), causing a stack overflow in Decode, which leads to a loss of availability. (CVE-2022-24675)


Affected Packages:

amazon-ssm-agent


Issue Correction:
Run yum update amazon-ssm-agent to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    amazon-ssm-agent-3.1.1575.0-1.amzn2.aarch64
    amazon-ssm-agent-debuginfo-3.1.1575.0-1.amzn2.aarch64

src:
    amazon-ssm-agent-3.1.1575.0-1.amzn2.src

x86_64:
    amazon-ssm-agent-3.1.1575.0-1.amzn2.x86_64
    amazon-ssm-agent-debuginfo-3.1.1575.0-1.amzn2.x86_64