ALAS-2017-840


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-840
Advisory Release Date: 2017-06-06 17:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2017-06-06 22:48 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

Memory leak when failing to parse XDR strings or bytearrays
It was found that due to the way rpcbind uses libtirpc (libntirpc), a memory leak can occur when parsing specially crafted XDR messages. An attacker sending thousands of messages to rpcbind could cause its memory usage to grow without bound, eventually causing it to be terminated by the OOM killer. (CVE-2017-8779)


Affected Packages:

libtirpc


Issue Correction:
Run yum update libtirpc to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    libtirpc-0.2.4-0.8.14.amzn1.i686
    libtirpc-devel-0.2.4-0.8.14.amzn1.i686
    libtirpc-debuginfo-0.2.4-0.8.14.amzn1.i686

src:
    libtirpc-0.2.4-0.8.14.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    libtirpc-debuginfo-0.2.4-0.8.14.amzn1.x86_64
    libtirpc-devel-0.2.4-0.8.14.amzn1.x86_64
    libtirpc-0.2.4-0.8.14.amzn1.x86_64