Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2018-1084
Advisory Release Date: 2018-09-19 19:22 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2018-09-19 23:36 Pacific
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in procmail's formail utility. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted email that, when processed by formail, could cause formail to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running formail.(CVE-2017-16844)
Affected Packages:
procmail
Issue Correction:
Run yum update procmail to update your system.
i686:
procmail-3.22-25.1.7.amzn1.i686
procmail-debuginfo-3.22-25.1.7.amzn1.i686
src:
procmail-3.22-25.1.7.amzn1.src
x86_64:
procmail-debuginfo-3.22-25.1.7.amzn1.x86_64
procmail-3.22-25.1.7.amzn1.x86_64