Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2016-770
Advisory Release Date: 2016-11-18 12:30 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2016-11-18 12:30 Pacific
It was discovered that the OpenSSH sshd daemon fetched PAM environment settings before running the login program. In configurations with UseLogin=yes and the pam_env PAM module configured to read user environment settings, a local user could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as root.
Affected Packages:
openssh
Issue Correction:
Run yum update openssh to update your system.
i686:
openssh-clients-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.i686
openssh-debuginfo-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.i686
openssh-keycat-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.i686
openssh-ldap-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.i686
openssh-server-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.i686
pam_ssh_agent_auth-0.9.3-9.31.62.amzn1.i686
openssh-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.i686
src:
openssh-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.src
x86_64:
pam_ssh_agent_auth-0.9.3-9.31.62.amzn1.x86_64
openssh-debuginfo-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.x86_64
openssh-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.x86_64
openssh-ldap-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.x86_64
openssh-server-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.x86_64
openssh-keycat-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.x86_64
openssh-clients-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.x86_64