Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2015-598
Advisory Release Date: 2015-09-22 10:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2015-09-22 10:00 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way grep parsed large lines of data. An attacker able to trick a user into running grep on a specially crafted data file could use this flaw to crash grep or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running grep. (CVE-2012-5667)
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way grep processed certain pattern and text combinations. An attacker able to trick a user into running grep on specially crafted input could use this flaw to crash grep or, potentially, read from uninitialized memory. (CVE-2015-1345)
Affected Packages:
grep
Issue Correction:
Run yum update grep to update your system.
i686:
grep-2.20-1.14.amzn1.i686
grep-debuginfo-2.20-1.14.amzn1.i686
src:
grep-2.20-1.14.amzn1.src
x86_64:
grep-debuginfo-2.20-1.14.amzn1.x86_64
grep-2.20-1.14.amzn1.x86_64