Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-353
Advisory Release Date: 2023-09-14 00:55 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-09-20 21:31 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
Issue Correction:
Run dnf update gsl --releasever 2023.2.20230920 to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
gsl-debuginfo-2.6-4.amzn2023.0.4.aarch64
gsl-2.6-4.amzn2023.0.4.aarch64
gsl-devel-2.6-4.amzn2023.0.4.aarch64
gsl-debugsource-2.6-4.amzn2023.0.4.aarch64
src:
gsl-2.6-4.amzn2023.0.4.src
x86_64:
gsl-debuginfo-2.6-4.amzn2023.0.4.x86_64
gsl-2.6-4.amzn2023.0.4.x86_64
gsl-devel-2.6-4.amzn2023.0.4.x86_64
gsl-debugsource-2.6-4.amzn2023.0.4.x86_64