Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-355
Advisory Release Date: 2014-06-15 16:19 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-19 10:22 Pacific
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33, when CONFIG_IP_VS is used, allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for (1) a getsockopt system call, related to the do_ip_vs_get_ctl function, or (2) a setsockopt system call, related to the do_ip_vs_set_ctl function.
Affected Packages:
glibc
Issue Correction:
Run yum update glibc to update your system.
i686:
glibc-common-2.17-55.84.amzn1.i686
glibc-debuginfo-2.17-55.84.amzn1.i686
nscd-2.17-55.84.amzn1.i686
glibc-devel-2.17-55.84.amzn1.i686
glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-55.84.amzn1.i686
glibc-utils-2.17-55.84.amzn1.i686
glibc-static-2.17-55.84.amzn1.i686
glibc-2.17-55.84.amzn1.i686
glibc-headers-2.17-55.84.amzn1.i686
src:
glibc-2.17-55.84.amzn1.src
x86_64:
glibc-static-2.17-55.84.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-headers-2.17-55.84.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-common-2.17-55.84.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-utils-2.17-55.84.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-devel-2.17-55.84.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-2.17-55.84.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-debuginfo-2.17-55.84.amzn1.x86_64
nscd-2.17-55.84.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-55.84.amzn1.x86_64