Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-403
Advisory Release Date: 2014-09-17 21:44 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-19 12:02 Pacific
Multiple integer overflows in X.org libXext 1.3.1 and earlier allow X servers to trigger allocation of insufficient memory and a buffer overflow via vectors related to the (1) XcupGetReservedColormapEntries, (2) XcupStoreColors, (3) XdbeGetVisualInfo, (4) XeviGetVisualInfo, (5) XShapeGetRectangles, and (6) XSyncListSystemCounters functions.
Affected Packages:
libXext
Issue Correction:
Run yum update libXext to update your system.
i686:
libXext-debuginfo-1.3.1-2.9.amzn1.i686
libXext-devel-1.3.1-2.9.amzn1.i686
libXext-1.3.1-2.9.amzn1.i686
src:
libXext-1.3.1-2.9.amzn1.src
x86_64:
libXext-debuginfo-1.3.1-2.9.amzn1.x86_64
libXext-devel-1.3.1-2.9.amzn1.x86_64
libXext-1.3.1-2.9.amzn1.x86_64