{"id":"ALSA-2022:4940","summary":"Important: xz security update","details":"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.\nSecurity Fix(es):\n* gzip: arbitrary-file-write vulnerability (CVE-2022-1271)\nFor 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.","modified":"2026-01-30T01:39:18.685013Z","published":"2022-06-08T00:00:00Z","related":["CVE-2022-1271"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4940"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1271"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2073310"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2022-4940.html"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"xz","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/xz"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.2.5-8.el9_0"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux9/ALSA-2022:4940.json"}},{"package":{"name":"xz-devel","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/xz-devel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.2.5-8.el9_0"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux9/ALSA-2022:4940.json"}},{"package":{"name":"xz-libs","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/xz-libs"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.2.5-8.el9_0"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux9/ALSA-2022:4940.json"}},{"package":{"name":"xz-lzma-compat","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/xz-lzma-compat"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.2.5-8.el9_0"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux9/ALSA-2022:4940.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}