Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2016-696
Advisory Release Date: 2016-05-03 10:30 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2016-05-03 10:30 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Graphite2. An attacker able to trick an unsuspecting user into opening specially crafted font files in an application using Graphite2 could exploit these flaws to cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the application.
Affected Packages:
graphite2
Issue Correction:
Run yum update graphite2 to update your system.
i686:
graphite2-debuginfo-1.3.6-1.9.amzn1.i686
graphite2-1.3.6-1.9.amzn1.i686
graphite2-devel-1.3.6-1.9.amzn1.i686
src:
graphite2-1.3.6-1.9.amzn1.src
x86_64:
graphite2-devel-1.3.6-1.9.amzn1.x86_64
graphite2-debuginfo-1.3.6-1.9.amzn1.x86_64
graphite2-1.3.6-1.9.amzn1.x86_64