Important: bcel

Issue Overview:

Apache Commons BCEL has a number of APIs that would normally only allow changing specific class characteristics. However, due to an out-of-bounds writing issue, these APIs can be used to produce arbitrary bytecode. This could be abused in applications that pass attacker-controllable data to those APIs, giving the attacker more control over the resulting bytecode than otherwise expected. Update to Apache Commons BCEL 6.6.0. (CVE-2022-42920)

Affected Packages:

bcel

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update bcel to update your system.

New Packages:

noarch:  
    bcel-5.2-18.amzn2.0.1.noarch  
    bcel-javadoc-5.2-18.amzn2.0.1.noarch  
  
src:  
    bcel-5.2-18.amzn2.0.1.src  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2022-42920

Mitre: CVE-2022-42920