Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2015-491
Advisory Release Date: 2015-03-13 02:34 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2015-03-13 02:47 Pacific
It was reported that stack address is not properly randomized on some 64 bit architectures due to an integer overflow. The stack entropy of the processes is reduced by four.
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.
i686:
kernel-headers-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.i686
perf-debuginfo-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.i686
kernel-debuginfo-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.i686
kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-devel-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.i686
kernel-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.i686
kernel-devel-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.i686
perf-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.i686
noarch:
kernel-doc-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.noarch
src:
kernel-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.src
x86_64:
kernel-tools-devel-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-devel-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.x86_64
perf-debuginfo-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-headers-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.x86_64
perf-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.x86_64