Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2255
Advisory Release Date: 2023-09-13 23:44 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-09-20 19:40 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
A buffer overflow can occur when calculating the quantile value using the Statistics Library of GSL (GNU Scientific Library), versions 2.5 and 2.6. Processing a maliciously crafted input data for gsl_stats_quantile_from_sorted_data of the library may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2020-35357)
Affected Packages:
gsl
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 gsl to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
gsl-1.15-13.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
gsl-devel-1.15-13.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
gsl-debuginfo-1.15-13.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
i686:
gsl-1.15-13.amzn2.0.2.i686
gsl-devel-1.15-13.amzn2.0.2.i686
gsl-debuginfo-1.15-13.amzn2.0.2.i686
src:
gsl-1.15-13.amzn2.0.2.src
x86_64:
gsl-1.15-13.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
gsl-devel-1.15-13.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
gsl-debuginfo-1.15-13.amzn2.0.2.x86_64