Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-118
Advisory Release Date: 2012-08-21 21:04 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 16:51 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
The rds_recvmsg function in net/rds/recv.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0.44 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a (1) recvfrom or (2) recvmsg system call on an RDS socket.
Affected Packages:
kernel
Issue Correction:
Run yum update kernel to update your system. You will need to reboot your system in order for the new kernel to be running.
New Packages:
i686:
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.2.28-45.62.amzn1.i686
kernel-3.2.28-45.62.amzn1.i686
kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-3.2.28-45.62.amzn1.i686
kernel-devel-3.2.28-45.62.amzn1.i686
kernel-headers-3.2.28-45.62.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-3.2.28-45.62.amzn1.i686
kernel-debuginfo-3.2.28-45.62.amzn1.i686
noarch:
kernel-doc-3.2.28-45.62.amzn1.noarch
src:
kernel-3.2.28-45.62.amzn1.src
x86_64:
kernel-tools-3.2.28-45.62.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.2.28-45.62.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-devel-3.2.28-45.62.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-headers-3.2.28-45.62.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-3.2.28-45.62.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.2.28-45.62.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-3.2.28-45.62.amzn1.x86_64