ALAS-2012-109

Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-109
Advisory Release Date: 2012-07-25 17:56 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 16:59 Pacific

Severity: Medium

References: CVE-2012-3404 CVE-2012-3405 CVE-2012-3406 RHSA-2012-1098
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity

Issue Overview:

Multiple errors in glibc's formatted printing functionality could allow an attacker to bypass FORTIFY_SOURCE protections and execute arbitrary code using a format string flaw in an application, even though these protections are expected to limit the impact of such flaws to an application abort.

Affected Packages:

glibc

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

New Packages:

i686:
    glibc-common-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.i686
    glibc-debuginfo-common-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.i686
    glibc-headers-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.i686
    nscd-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.i686
    glibc-static-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.i686
    glibc-debuginfo-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.i686
    glibc-utils-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.i686
    glibc-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.i686
    glibc-devel-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.i686

src:
    glibc-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    glibc-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.x86_64
    glibc-devel-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.x86_64
    nscd-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.x86_64
    glibc-debuginfo-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.x86_64
    glibc-debuginfo-common-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.x86_64
    glibc-utils-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.x86_64
    glibc-headers-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.x86_64
    glibc-static-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.x86_64
    glibc-common-2.12-1.80.40.amzn1.x86_64

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2012-3404, CVE-2012-3405, CVE-2012-3406

Mitre: CVE-2012-3404, CVE-2012-3405, CVE-2012-3406