ALAS-2012-072


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-72
Advisory Release Date: 2012-05-02 12:28 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 15:52 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

Multiple numeric conversion errors, leading to a buffer overflow, were found in the way OpenSSL parsed ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One) data from BIO (OpenSSL's I/O abstraction) inputs. Specially-crafted DER (Distinguished Encoding Rules) encoded data read from a file or other BIO input could cause an application using the OpenSSL library to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-2110)


Affected Packages:

openssl


Issue Correction:
Run yum update openssl to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    openssl-static-1.0.0i-1.41.amzn1.i686
    openssl-devel-1.0.0i-1.41.amzn1.i686
    openssl-1.0.0i-1.41.amzn1.i686
    openssl-perl-1.0.0i-1.41.amzn1.i686
    openssl-debuginfo-1.0.0i-1.41.amzn1.i686

src:
    openssl-1.0.0i-1.41.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    openssl-devel-1.0.0i-1.41.amzn1.x86_64
    openssl-perl-1.0.0i-1.41.amzn1.x86_64
    openssl-static-1.0.0i-1.41.amzn1.x86_64
    openssl-debuginfo-1.0.0i-1.41.amzn1.x86_64
    openssl-1.0.0i-1.41.amzn1.x86_64