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RHSA-2022:4582 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: gzip security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 9

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · May 18, 2022

Updated · August 7, 2026

Topic

An update for gzip is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The gzip packages contain the gzip (GNU zip) data compression utility. gzip is used to compress regular files. It replaces them with files containing the .gz extension, while retaining ownership modes, access, and modification times.

Security Fix(es):

  • gzip: arbitrary-file-write vulnerability (CVE-2022-1271)

For 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.

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