ALAS2022-2021-003

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-44228  

A flaw was found in the Java logging library Apache Log4j 2 in versions from 2.0-beta9 and before and including 2.14.1. This could allow a remote attacker to execute code on the server if the system logs an attacker-controlled string value with the attacker's JNDI LDAP server lookup. (CVE-2021-44228)

ALAS2022-2021-003


Amazon Linux 2022 Security Advisory: ALAS-2021-003
Advisory Release Date: 2021-12-10 21:56 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2021-12-11 12:00 Pacific
Severity: Critical
References: CVE-2021-44228 

Issue Overview:

A flaw was found in the Java logging library Apache Log4j 2 in versions from 2.0-beta9 and before and including 2.14.1. This could allow a remote attacker to execute code on the server if the system logs an attacker-controlled string value with the attacker's JNDI LDAP server lookup. (CVE-2021-44228)


Affected Packages:

log4j


Issue Correction:
Run dnf update --releasever=2022.0.20211210 log4j to update your system.

New Packages:
noarch:
    log4j-slf4j-2.15.0-1.amzn2022.0.1.noarch
    log4j-2.15.0-1.amzn2022.0.1.noarch
    log4j-jcl-2.15.0-1.amzn2022.0.1.noarch

src:
    log4j-2.15.0-1.amzn2022.0.1.src