ALSA-2022:2120

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    ALSA-2022:2120

    Published: 10 May 2022Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Moderate: zsh security update

    Details: The zsh shell is a command interpreter usable as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor. Zsh resembles the ksh shell (the Korn shell), but includes many enhancements. Zsh supports command-line editing, built-in spelling correction, programmable command completion, shell functions (with autoloading), a history mechanism, and more. Security Fix(es): * zsh: Prompt expansion vulnerability (CVE-2021-45444) 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. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

    References: https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2022-2120.html, https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-45444

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: zsh

    Purl: pkg:rpm/almalinux/zsh

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -5.5.1-9.el8

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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