Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1330
Advisory Release Date: 2019-10-21 18:01 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-10-23 23:53 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
It was found that the Archive::Tar module did not properly sanitize symbolic links when extracting tar archives. An attacker, able to provide a specially crafted archive for processing, could use this flaw to write or overwrite arbitrary files in the context of the Perl interpreter.(CVE-2018-12015)
Affected Packages:
perl-Archive-Tar
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 perl-Archive-Tar to update your system.
New Packages:
noarch:
perl-Archive-Tar-1.92-3.amzn2.noarch
src:
perl-Archive-Tar-1.92-3.amzn2.src