ALAS-2017-844


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-844
Advisory Release Date: 2017-06-19 08:51 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2017-06-19 08:51 Pacific
Severity: Critical

Issue Overview:

Glibc contains a vulnerability that allows specially crafted LD_LIBRARY_PATH values to manipulate the heap/stack, causing them to alias, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution. Please note that additional hardening changes have been made to glibc to prevent manipulation of stack and heap memory but these issues are not directly exploitable, as such they have not been given a CVE. This affects glibc 2.25 and earlier. (CVE-2017-1000366)


Affected Packages:

glibc


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

New Packages:
i686:
    glibc-common-2.17-157.170.amzn1.i686
    glibc-static-2.17-157.170.amzn1.i686
    glibc-devel-2.17-157.170.amzn1.i686
    glibc-debuginfo-2.17-157.170.amzn1.i686
    glibc-utils-2.17-157.170.amzn1.i686
    glibc-headers-2.17-157.170.amzn1.i686
    glibc-2.17-157.170.amzn1.i686
    glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-157.170.amzn1.i686
    nscd-2.17-157.170.amzn1.i686

src:
    glibc-2.17-157.170.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    glibc-utils-2.17-157.170.amzn1.x86_64
    glibc-common-2.17-157.170.amzn1.x86_64
    glibc-headers-2.17-157.170.amzn1.x86_64
    nscd-2.17-157.170.amzn1.x86_64
    glibc-debuginfo-2.17-157.170.amzn1.x86_64
    glibc-devel-2.17-157.170.amzn1.x86_64
    glibc-2.17-157.170.amzn1.x86_64
    glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-157.170.amzn1.x86_64
    glibc-static-2.17-157.170.amzn1.x86_64