Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-359
Advisory Release Date: 2014-06-15 16:22 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-19 10:24 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
It was discovered that the asn1_get_bit_der() function of the libtasn1 library incorrectly reported the length of ASN.1-encoded data. Specially crafted ASN.1 input could cause an application using libtasn1 to perform an out-of-bounds access operation, causing the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-3468)
Multiple incorrect buffer boundary check issues were discovered in libtasn1. Specially crafted ASN.1 input could cause an application using libtasn1 to crash. (CVE-2014-3467)
Multiple NULL pointer dereference flaws were found in libtasn1's asn1_read_value() function. Specially crafted ASN.1 input could cause an application using libtasn1 to crash, if the application used the aforementioned function in a certain way. (CVE-2014-3469)
Affected Packages:
libtasn1
Issue Correction:
Run yum update libtasn1 to update your system.
i686:
libtasn1-devel-2.3-6.6.amzn1.i686
libtasn1-2.3-6.6.amzn1.i686
libtasn1-tools-2.3-6.6.amzn1.i686
libtasn1-debuginfo-2.3-6.6.amzn1.i686
src:
libtasn1-2.3-6.6.amzn1.src
x86_64:
libtasn1-debuginfo-2.3-6.6.amzn1.x86_64
libtasn1-2.3-6.6.amzn1.x86_64
libtasn1-devel-2.3-6.6.amzn1.x86_64
libtasn1-tools-2.3-6.6.amzn1.x86_64