Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2016-659
Advisory Release Date: 2016-03-10 16:30 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2016-03-10 16:30 Pacific
A use-after-free flaw related to the PMAP_CALLIT operation and TCP/UDP connections was discovered in rpcbind. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could possibly exploit this flaw to crash the rpcbind service (denial of service) by performing a series of UDP and TCP calls.
Affected Packages:
rpcbind
Issue Correction:
Run yum update rpcbind to update your system.
i686:
rpcbind-0.2.0-11.8.amzn1.i686
rpcbind-debuginfo-0.2.0-11.8.amzn1.i686
src:
rpcbind-0.2.0-11.8.amzn1.src
x86_64:
rpcbind-debuginfo-0.2.0-11.8.amzn1.x86_64
rpcbind-0.2.0-11.8.amzn1.x86_64