Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2015-500
Advisory Release Date: 2015-04-01 13:32 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2015-04-01 17:02 Pacific
Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the status_handler function in (1) engine-gpgsm.c and (2) engine-uiserver.c in GPGME before 1.5.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to "different line lengths in a specific order."
Affected Packages:
gpgme
Issue Correction:
Run yum update gpgme to update your system.
i686:
gpgme-devel-1.4.3-5.15.amzn1.i686
gpgme-1.4.3-5.15.amzn1.i686
gpgme-debuginfo-1.4.3-5.15.amzn1.i686
src:
gpgme-1.4.3-5.15.amzn1.src
x86_64:
gpgme-devel-1.4.3-5.15.amzn1.x86_64
gpgme-debuginfo-1.4.3-5.15.amzn1.x86_64
gpgme-1.4.3-5.15.amzn1.x86_64