ALAS-2025-2727


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2025-2727
Advisory Release Date: 2025-01-04 00:04 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-01-09 15:39 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

Stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in orcparse.c of ORC versions prior to 0.4.39. If a developer is tricked to process a specially crafted file with the affected ORC compiler, an arbitrary code may be executed on the developer's build environment. (CVE-2024-40897)


Affected Packages:

orc


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 orc to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    orc-0.4.26-1.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    orc-devel-0.4.26-1.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    orc-compiler-0.4.26-1.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    orc-debuginfo-0.4.26-1.amzn2.0.3.aarch64

i686:
    orc-0.4.26-1.amzn2.0.3.i686
    orc-devel-0.4.26-1.amzn2.0.3.i686
    orc-compiler-0.4.26-1.amzn2.0.3.i686
    orc-debuginfo-0.4.26-1.amzn2.0.3.i686

noarch:
    orc-doc-0.4.26-1.amzn2.0.3.noarch

src:
    orc-0.4.26-1.amzn2.0.3.src

x86_64:
    orc-0.4.26-1.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    orc-devel-0.4.26-1.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    orc-compiler-0.4.26-1.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    orc-debuginfo-0.4.26-1.amzn2.0.3.x86_64