Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2016-739
Advisory Release Date: 2016-09-01 18:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2016-09-01 18:00 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
A heap-based buffer overflow in the parse_packet function in network.c in collectd allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted network packet.
Affected Packages:
collectd
Issue Correction:
Run yum update collectd to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
collectd-gmond-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-java-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-lvm-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-bind-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-ipvs-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-rrdcached-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-generic-jmx-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-amqp-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-memcachec-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-postgresql-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-web-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-dbi-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-email-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-mysql-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-rrdtool-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-curl_xml-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-nginx-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-snmp-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
perl-Collectd-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-curl-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-notify_email-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-debuginfo-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-ipmi-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-iptables-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-dns-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-varnish-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-apache-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
collectd-netlink-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686
src:
collectd-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.src
x86_64:
collectd-web-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-postgresql-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-gmond-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-mysql-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-snmp-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-rrdcached-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-varnish-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-notify_email-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-apache-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-generic-jmx-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-lvm-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-rrdtool-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-memcachec-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-netlink-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-java-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-ipvs-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-ipmi-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-bind-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-debuginfo-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-email-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-dbi-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-curl_xml-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-nginx-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-curl-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-dns-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
perl-Collectd-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-iptables-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
collectd-amqp-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64