Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-399
Advisory Release Date: 2014-09-03 14:44 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-19 11:57 Pacific
An off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in glibc's internal __gconv_translit_find() function. An attacker able to make an application call the iconv_open() function with a specially crafted argument could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of that application.
Affected Packages:
glibc
Issue Correction:
Run yum update glibc to update your system.
i686:
glibc-devel-2.17-55.85.amzn1.i686
glibc-2.17-55.85.amzn1.i686
glibc-utils-2.17-55.85.amzn1.i686
nscd-2.17-55.85.amzn1.i686
glibc-headers-2.17-55.85.amzn1.i686
glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-55.85.amzn1.i686
glibc-static-2.17-55.85.amzn1.i686
glibc-common-2.17-55.85.amzn1.i686
glibc-debuginfo-2.17-55.85.amzn1.i686
src:
glibc-2.17-55.85.amzn1.src
x86_64:
glibc-debuginfo-2.17-55.85.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-common-2.17-55.85.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-utils-2.17-55.85.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-2.17-55.85.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-static-2.17-55.85.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-55.85.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-headers-2.17-55.85.amzn1.x86_64
nscd-2.17-55.85.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-devel-2.17-55.85.amzn1.x86_64