Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2021-1489
Advisory Release Date: 2021-03-18 17:30 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2021-03-19 22:55 Pacific
A flaw was found in xterm. A specially crafted sequence of combining characters causes an out of bounds write leading to arbitrary code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability. (CVE-2021-27135)
Affected Packages:
xterm
Issue Correction:
Run yum update xterm to update your system.
i686:
xterm-295-3.15.amzn1.i686
xterm-debuginfo-295-3.15.amzn1.i686
src:
xterm-295-3.15.amzn1.src
x86_64:
xterm-295-3.15.amzn1.x86_64
xterm-debuginfo-295-3.15.amzn1.x86_64