{"id":"RLSA-2022:4991","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.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* gzip: arbitrary-file-write vulnerability (CVE-2022-1271)\n\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":"2026-03-11T06:03:52.182855Z","published":"2022-06-13T07:15:31Z","upstream":["CVE-2022-1271"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2022:4991"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2073310"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"xz","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/xz?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:5.2.4-4.el8_6"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"BaseOS"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2022:4991.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}],"credits":[{"name":"Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation"},{"name":"Red Hat"}]}