Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2015-489
Advisory Release Date: 2015-03-05 09:31 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2015-03-05 09:33 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's XFS file system handled replacing of remote attributes under certain conditions. A local user with access to XFS file system mount could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system.
Affected Packages:
kernel
Issue Correction:
Run yum clean all followed by yum update kernel to update your system. You will need to reboot your system in order for the new kernel to be running.
New Packages:
i686:
kernel-headers-3.14.34-27.48.amzn1.i686
kernel-devel-3.14.34-27.48.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-devel-3.14.34-27.48.amzn1.i686
kernel-debuginfo-3.14.34-27.48.amzn1.i686
kernel-3.14.34-27.48.amzn1.i686
kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-3.14.34-27.48.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.14.34-27.48.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-3.14.34-27.48.amzn1.i686
perf-3.14.34-27.48.amzn1.i686
perf-debuginfo-3.14.34-27.48.amzn1.i686
noarch:
kernel-doc-3.14.34-27.48.amzn1.noarch
src:
kernel-3.14.34-27.48.amzn1.src
x86_64:
kernel-tools-3.14.34-27.48.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-headers-3.14.34-27.48.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-devel-3.14.34-27.48.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-3.14.34-27.48.amzn1.x86_64
perf-debuginfo-3.14.34-27.48.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-devel-3.14.34-27.48.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-3.14.34-27.48.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.14.34-27.48.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.14.34-27.48.amzn1.x86_64
perf-3.14.34-27.48.amzn1.x86_64