ALAS-2019-1319


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1319
Advisory Release Date: 2019-11-19 17:30 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-11-22 03:22 Pacific
Severity: Low

Issue Overview:

blktrace (aka Block IO Tracing) 1.2.0, as used with the Linux kernel and Android, has a buffer overflow in the dev_map_read function in btt/devmap.c because the device and devno arrays are too small, as demonstrated by an invalid free when using the btt program with a crafted file. (CVE-2018-10689)


Affected Packages:

blktrace


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

New Packages:
i686:
    blktrace-1.0.5-9.16.amzn1.i686
    blktrace-debuginfo-1.0.5-9.16.amzn1.i686

src:
    blktrace-1.0.5-9.16.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    blktrace-debuginfo-1.0.5-9.16.amzn1.x86_64
    blktrace-1.0.5-9.16.amzn1.x86_64