Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-282
Advisory Release Date: 2014-02-03 15:26 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-16 22:21 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the libXfont library parsed Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) fonts. A malicious, local user could exploit this issue to potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the X.Org server. (CVE-2013-6462)
Affected Packages:
libXfont
Issue Correction:
Run yum update libXfont to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
libXfont-devel-1.4.5-3.8.amzn1.i686
libXfont-1.4.5-3.8.amzn1.i686
libXfont-debuginfo-1.4.5-3.8.amzn1.i686
src:
libXfont-1.4.5-3.8.amzn1.src
x86_64:
libXfont-devel-1.4.5-3.8.amzn1.x86_64
libXfont-debuginfo-1.4.5-3.8.amzn1.x86_64
libXfont-1.4.5-3.8.amzn1.x86_64