Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2021-1619
Advisory Release Date: 2021-03-18 01:13 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2021-03-19 22:53 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
A flaw was found in xterm. A specially crafted sequence of combining characters causes an out of bounds write leading to arbitrary code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability. (CVE-2021-27135)
Affected Packages:
xterm
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 xterm to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
xterm-295-3.amzn2.1.aarch64
xterm-debuginfo-295-3.amzn2.1.aarch64
i686:
xterm-295-3.amzn2.1.i686
xterm-debuginfo-295-3.amzn2.1.i686
src:
xterm-295-3.amzn2.1.src
x86_64:
xterm-295-3.amzn2.1.x86_64
xterm-debuginfo-295-3.amzn2.1.x86_64