Use After Free Affecting libsepol-debugsource package, versions <0:3.3-2.amzn2022


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.6% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2022-LIBSEPOLDEBUGSOURCE-2996467
  • published29 Aug 2022
  • disclosed1 Jul 2021

Introduced: 1 Jul 2021

CVE-2021-36086  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2022 libsepol-debugsource to version 0:3.3-2.amzn2022 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2022-2022-030.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libsepol-debugsource package and not the libsepol-debugsource package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2022 relevant fixed versions and status.

The CIL compiler in SELinux 3.2 has a use-after-free in cil_reset_classpermission (called from cil_reset_classperms_set and cil_reset_classperms_list).

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1