ALAS2-2022-1834

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-34903  

A vulnerability was found in GnuPG. This issue occurs due to an escape detection loop at the write_status_text_and_buffer() function in g10/cpr.c. This flaw allows a malicious actor to bypass access control. (CVE-2022-34903)

ALAS2-2022-1834


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-1834
Advisory Release Date: 2022-08-15 21:03 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-08-19 17:54 Pacific
Severity: Medium
References: CVE-2022-34903 

Issue Overview:

A vulnerability was found in GnuPG. This issue occurs due to an escape detection loop at the write_status_text_and_buffer() function in g10/cpr.c. This flaw allows a malicious actor to bypass access control. (CVE-2022-34903)


Affected Packages:

gnupg2


Issue Correction:
Run yum update gnupg2 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    gnupg2-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.5.aarch64
    gnupg2-smime-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.5.aarch64
    gnupg2-debuginfo-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.5.aarch64

i686:
    gnupg2-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.5.i686
    gnupg2-smime-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.5.i686
    gnupg2-debuginfo-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.5.i686

src:
    gnupg2-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.5.src

x86_64:
    gnupg2-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.5.x86_64
    gnupg2-smime-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.5.x86_64
    gnupg2-debuginfo-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.5.x86_64