Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-109
Advisory Release Date: 2012-07-25 17:56 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 16:59 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
Multiple errors in glibc's formatted printing functionality could allow an attacker to bypass FORTIFY_SOURCE protections and execute arbitrary code using a format string flaw in an application, even though these protections are expected to limit the impact of such flaws to an application abort.
Affected Packages:
glibc
Issue Correction:
Run yum update glibc to update your system.
i686:
glibc-common-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.i686
glibc-debuginfo-common-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.i686
glibc-headers-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.i686
nscd-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.i686
glibc-static-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.i686
glibc-debuginfo-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.i686
glibc-utils-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.i686
glibc-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.i686
glibc-devel-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.i686
src:
glibc-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.src
x86_64:
glibc-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-devel-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.x86_64
nscd-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-debuginfo-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-debuginfo-common-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-utils-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-headers-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-static-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-common-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.x86_64