Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2021-1484
Advisory Release Date: 2021-02-23 20:18 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2021-02-24 19:45 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
A flaw was found in python. A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the ctypes module provided within Python. Applications that use ctypes without carefully validating the input passed to it may be vulnerable to this flaw, which would allow an attacker to overflow a buffer on the stack and crash the application. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2021-3177)
Affected Packages:
python27, python36, python38
Issue Correction:
Run yum update python27 to update your system.
Run yum update python36 to update your system.
Run yum update python38 to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
python38-3.8.5-1.5.amzn1.i686
python38-libs-3.8.5-1.5.amzn1.i686
python38-devel-3.8.5-1.5.amzn1.i686
python38-debuginfo-3.8.5-1.5.amzn1.i686
python38-debug-3.8.5-1.5.amzn1.i686
python38-test-3.8.5-1.5.amzn1.i686
python38-tools-3.8.5-1.5.amzn1.i686
python27-tools-2.7.18-2.141.amzn1.i686
python27-test-2.7.18-2.141.amzn1.i686
python27-libs-2.7.18-2.141.amzn1.i686
python27-debuginfo-2.7.18-2.141.amzn1.i686
python27-devel-2.7.18-2.141.amzn1.i686
python27-2.7.18-2.141.amzn1.i686
python36-debug-3.6.12-1.20.amzn1.i686
python36-3.6.12-1.20.amzn1.i686
python36-devel-3.6.12-1.20.amzn1.i686
python36-test-3.6.12-1.20.amzn1.i686
python36-debuginfo-3.6.12-1.20.amzn1.i686
python36-tools-3.6.12-1.20.amzn1.i686
python36-libs-3.6.12-1.20.amzn1.i686
src:
python38-3.8.5-1.5.amzn1.src
python27-2.7.18-2.141.amzn1.src
python36-3.6.12-1.20.amzn1.src
x86_64:
python38-test-3.8.5-1.5.amzn1.x86_64
python38-libs-3.8.5-1.5.amzn1.x86_64
python38-3.8.5-1.5.amzn1.x86_64
python38-tools-3.8.5-1.5.amzn1.x86_64
python38-devel-3.8.5-1.5.amzn1.x86_64
python38-debuginfo-3.8.5-1.5.amzn1.x86_64
python38-debug-3.8.5-1.5.amzn1.x86_64
python27-debuginfo-2.7.18-2.141.amzn1.x86_64
python27-libs-2.7.18-2.141.amzn1.x86_64
python27-test-2.7.18-2.141.amzn1.x86_64
python27-2.7.18-2.141.amzn1.x86_64
python27-devel-2.7.18-2.141.amzn1.x86_64
python27-tools-2.7.18-2.141.amzn1.x86_64
python36-debug-3.6.12-1.20.amzn1.x86_64
python36-debuginfo-3.6.12-1.20.amzn1.x86_64
python36-3.6.12-1.20.amzn1.x86_64
python36-devel-3.6.12-1.20.amzn1.x86_64
python36-libs-3.6.12-1.20.amzn1.x86_64
python36-tools-3.6.12-1.20.amzn1.x86_64
python36-test-3.6.12-1.20.amzn1.x86_64