RHSA-2022:1537HighCVSS 8.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: gzip security update

Published
April 26, 2022
Last Modified
August 6, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2022-1271 →

📋 Description

CVE-2022-1271 — gzip: arbitrary-file-write vulnerability

🎯 Affected products14

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • gzip-0:1.9-13.el8_5.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • gzip-0:1.9-13.el8_5.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • gzip-0:1.9-13.el8_5.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • gzip-0:1.9-13.el8_5.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • gzip-0:1.9-13.el8_5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • gzip-debuginfo-0:1.9-13.el8_5.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • gzip-debuginfo-0:1.9-13.el8_5.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • gzip-debuginfo-0:1.9-13.el8_5.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • gzip-debuginfo-0:1.9-13.el8_5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • gzip-debugsource-0:1.9-13.el8_5.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • gzip-debugsource-0:1.9-13.el8_5.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • gzip-debugsource-0:1.9-13.el8_5.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • gzip-debugsource-0:1.9-13.el8_5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: Red Hat has investigated whether possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example. Please update the affected package as soon as possible.

🔗 References (4)