ALAS2022-2022-046

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-21716  

An uncontrolled resource consumption flaw was found in python-twisted in the dataReceived() function. This flaw allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to send a simple command to use all available memory and crash the server. (CVE-2022-21716)

ALAS2022-2022-046


Amazon Linux 2022 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-046
Advisory Release Date: 2022-04-19 01:21 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-04-22 15:12 Pacific
Severity: Important
References: CVE-2022-21716 

Issue Overview:

An uncontrolled resource consumption flaw was found in python-twisted in the dataReceived() function. This flaw allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to send a simple command to use all available memory and crash the server. (CVE-2022-21716)


Affected Packages:

python-twisted


Issue Correction:
Run dnf update --releasever=2022.0.20220419 python-twisted to update your system.

New Packages:
noarch:
    python3-twisted+tls-22.2.0-117.amzn2022.0.1.noarch
    python3-twisted-22.2.0-117.amzn2022.0.1.noarch

src:
    python-twisted-22.2.0-117.amzn2022.0.1.src