RHSA-2022:4994 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: xz security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · June 13, 2022

Updated · August 7, 2026

Topic

An update for xz is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

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

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.

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2022:4994 — Red Hat Security Advisory: xz security update | PulseLinux