ALAS2022-2022-207

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)

ALAS2022-2022-207


Amazon Linux 2022 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-207
Advisory Release Date: 2022-11-01 21:25 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-11-03 20:51 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 dnf update gnupg2 --releasever=2022.0.20221102 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    gnupg2-minimal-debuginfo-2.3.7-1.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64
    gnupg2-minimal-2.3.7-1.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64
    gnupg2-smime-debuginfo-2.3.7-1.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64
    gnupg2-smime-2.3.7-1.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64
    gnupg2-debuginfo-2.3.7-1.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64
    gnupg2-debugsource-2.3.7-1.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64
    gnupg2-2.3.7-1.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64

i686:
    gnupg2-minimal-debuginfo-2.3.7-1.amzn2022.0.2.i686
    gnupg2-debuginfo-2.3.7-1.amzn2022.0.2.i686
    gnupg2-debugsource-2.3.7-1.amzn2022.0.2.i686
    gnupg2-2.3.7-1.amzn2022.0.2.i686
    gnupg2-smime-debuginfo-2.3.7-1.amzn2022.0.2.i686
    gnupg2-minimal-2.3.7-1.amzn2022.0.2.i686
    gnupg2-smime-2.3.7-1.amzn2022.0.2.i686

src:
    gnupg2-2.3.7-1.amzn2022.0.2.src

x86_64:
    gnupg2-smime-debuginfo-2.3.7-1.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64
    gnupg2-minimal-2.3.7-1.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64
    gnupg2-minimal-debuginfo-2.3.7-1.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64
    gnupg2-smime-2.3.7-1.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64
    gnupg2-debugsource-2.3.7-1.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64
    gnupg2-2.3.7-1.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64
    gnupg2-debuginfo-2.3.7-1.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64