Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1186
Advisory Release Date: 2019-03-21 22:08 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-03-25 22:50 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
do_bid_note in readelf.c in libmagic.a has a stack-based buffer over-read, related to file_printf and file_vprintf. (CVE-2019-8904)
do_core_note in readelf.c in libmagic.a has a stack-based buffer over-read, related to file_printable, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-10360. (CVE-2019-8905)
do_core_note in readelf.c in libmagic.a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack corruption and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact. (CVE-2019-8907)
do_core_note in readelf.c in libmagic.a has an out-of-bounds read because memcpy is misused. (CVE-2019-8906)
Affected Packages:
file
Issue Correction:
Run yum update file to update your system.
i686:
file-5.34-3.37.amzn1.i686
file-devel-5.34-3.37.amzn1.i686
file-libs-5.34-3.37.amzn1.i686
file-debuginfo-5.34-3.37.amzn1.i686
file-static-5.34-3.37.amzn1.i686
noarch:
python27-magic-5.34-3.37.amzn1.noarch
python26-magic-5.34-3.37.amzn1.noarch
src:
file-5.34-3.37.amzn1.src
x86_64:
file-static-5.34-3.37.amzn1.x86_64
file-devel-5.34-3.37.amzn1.x86_64
file-5.34-3.37.amzn1.x86_64
file-debuginfo-5.34-3.37.amzn1.x86_64
file-libs-5.34-3.37.amzn1.x86_64