RHSA-2022:4994HighCVSS 8.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: xz security update

Published
June 13, 2022
Last Modified
August 6, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2022-1271 →

📋 Description

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

🎯 Affected products22

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xz-0:5.2.4-4.el8_1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xz-0:5.2.4-4.el8_1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xz-0:5.2.4-4.el8_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xz-debuginfo-0:5.2.4-4.el8_1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xz-debuginfo-0:5.2.4-4.el8_1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xz-debuginfo-0:5.2.4-4.el8_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xz-debugsource-0:5.2.4-4.el8_1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xz-debugsource-0:5.2.4-4.el8_1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xz-debugsource-0:5.2.4-4.el8_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xz-devel-0:5.2.4-4.el8_1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xz-devel-0:5.2.4-4.el8_1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xz-devel-0:5.2.4-4.el8_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xz-libs-0:5.2.4-4.el8_1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xz-libs-0:5.2.4-4.el8_1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xz-libs-0:5.2.4-4.el8_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xz-libs-debuginfo-0:5.2.4-4.el8_1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xz-libs-debuginfo-0:5.2.4-4.el8_1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xz-libs-debuginfo-0:5.2.4-4.el8_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xz-lzma-compat-debuginfo-0:5.2.4-4.el8_1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xz-lzma-compat-debuginfo-0:5.2.4-4.el8_1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • xz-lzma-compat-debuginfo-0:5.2.4-4.el8_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)

✅ 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)