ALAS-2022-1592

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)

ALAS-2022-1592


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-1592
Advisory Release Date: 2022-05-31 23:47 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-06-09 18:52 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-conch


Issue Correction:
Run yum update python-twisted-conch to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    python26-twisted-conch-8.2.0-3.2.7.amzn1.i686
    python27-twisted-conch-8.2.0-3.2.7.amzn1.i686

src:
    python-twisted-conch-8.2.0-3.2.7.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    python27-twisted-conch-8.2.0-3.2.7.amzn1.x86_64
    python26-twisted-conch-8.2.0-3.2.7.amzn1.x86_64