Advisories » MGASA-2022-0073

Updated zsh packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 18 Feb 2022
Modification date: 17 Feb 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2021-45444

Description

In zsh before 5.8.1, an attacker can achieve code execution if they control
a command output inside the prompt, as demonstrated by a %F argument. This
occurs because of recursive PROMPT_SUBST expansion. (CVE-2021-45444)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30057
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/2P3LPMGENEHKDWFO4MWMZSZL6G7Y4CV7/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5078
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-45444

SRPMS

8/core

• zsh-5.8.1-1.mga8