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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:4994 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2022-06-13
Updated:
2022-06-13

RHSA-2022:4994 - Security Advisory

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  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

Important: xz security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An update for xz is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

XZ Utils is an integrated collection of user-space file compression utilities based on the Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain algorithm (LZMA), which performs lossless data compression. The algorithm provides a high compression ratio while keeping the decompression time short.

Security Fix(es):

  • gzip: arbitrary-file-write vulnerability (CVE-2022-1271)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2073310 - CVE-2022-1271 gzip: arbitrary-file-write vulnerability

CVEs

  • CVE-2022-1271

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1

SRPM
xz-5.2.4-4.el8_1.src.rpm SHA-256: 10727a48787b1e4b8d1702390cfdf30ca275d5ca11d5e3451c7b7f56f1e78de7
ppc64le
xz-5.2.4-4.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 033b743bac357dc70217e7614751c99f3cef31b685ed669a465ad9af63c1fd63
xz-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: a4bd63c2bbcad16ab4aa1e9ac4762db46eafa55abd429ee37d65a8d585e85cd6
xz-debugsource-5.2.4-4.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 5e0276bed5d6f94565db3d01b8c60b86d974deefdb972386cc067802b7082290
xz-devel-5.2.4-4.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 9fa5f3c432ccfbf0ffe73a199e6335f7c636f8b152440b912af0aae168230461
xz-libs-5.2.4-4.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 095b70c571a9a466e4cb9884335eb715e58c351a7eded9a00f6bb346eaf5c024
xz-libs-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 3d61551f16c25fadb9f31d7315d97a7ef7e673a4c7a12a6a8c72a6251fa0aba8
xz-lzma-compat-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: e05b423c6acb700fdf484575dd2a0982598e90713a6af5a35bc0056c170f2c37

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1

SRPM
xz-5.2.4-4.el8_1.src.rpm SHA-256: 10727a48787b1e4b8d1702390cfdf30ca275d5ca11d5e3451c7b7f56f1e78de7
x86_64
xz-5.2.4-4.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d93c6d2be3890cb007bddf375d0a82a843e5a89003a2d4f385ac35fc2d31793f
xz-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_1.i686.rpm SHA-256: c2a9862972d2d77f21a7a948bc1c616c8f1a22db218fd04f17864db2b73123b3
xz-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 799b8367915e9a2d44d1e7b84477fa4fc1b9a414e05d592244624d077d14ea30
xz-debugsource-5.2.4-4.el8_1.i686.rpm SHA-256: 8b97b980cc7f2f7aa1b7fab28328e01e7435471cf3990274bea14640c35cc09b
xz-debugsource-5.2.4-4.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 52254399bf54708ef87c17c4f4729b24c3f0415757ecbfd4c31696bdd0dcdc00
xz-devel-5.2.4-4.el8_1.i686.rpm SHA-256: daa4ba4323f9dad7e877ac54f628e2f937f173863b40ff4209308aa8688d343d
xz-devel-5.2.4-4.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 7717109703d32a7e4e7f71863dcb425be442ab8dabc34d8a13f512d4192e84b8
xz-libs-5.2.4-4.el8_1.i686.rpm SHA-256: a081158bdcbdc348aecd64950521b395e6816ebf3ca81603661336aadbded683
xz-libs-5.2.4-4.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: f2393385d69c0eb954dbde55e57ee955fb8930d8549a24103c19f8b5af73571c
xz-libs-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_1.i686.rpm SHA-256: 7738f23854513b08481fcec3829e0ba5c98866e7e38784b5891ae3ead67568da
xz-libs-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b755cad5244f6613f740d11ff5fa365d4430b68a6ced7a8bc4851c3cda77fe0b
xz-lzma-compat-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_1.i686.rpm SHA-256: 6cb32d528dd867ed7f74790ff3b3730c0f59922e037291154828abb0c3bf0b73
xz-lzma-compat-debuginfo-5.2.4-4.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 8ee9d9231b70dfb46fc6858be6e91f1cfcaa54773184443df5a1d885347d9fda

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