Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-120
Advisory Release Date: 2012-09-04 10:23 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 16:54 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
Multiple integer overflow flaws, leading to stack-based buffer overflows, were found in glibc's functions for converting a string to a numeric representation (strtod(), strtof(), and strtold()). If an application used such a function on attacker controlled input, it could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-3480)
Affected Packages:
glibc
Issue Correction:
Run yum update glibc to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
glibc-static-2.12-1.80.42.amzn1.i686
glibc-2.12-1.80.42.amzn1.i686
glibc-common-2.12-1.80.42.amzn1.i686
glibc-utils-2.12-1.80.42.amzn1.i686
glibc-devel-2.12-1.80.42.amzn1.i686
glibc-debuginfo-2.12-1.80.42.amzn1.i686
glibc-headers-2.12-1.80.42.amzn1.i686
nscd-2.12-1.80.42.amzn1.i686
glibc-debuginfo-common-2.12-1.80.42.amzn1.i686
src:
glibc-2.12-1.80.42.amzn1.src
x86_64:
glibc-utils-2.12-1.80.42.amzn1.x86_64
nscd-2.12-1.80.42.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-debuginfo-2.12-1.80.42.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-common-2.12-1.80.42.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-static-2.12-1.80.42.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-2.12-1.80.42.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-debuginfo-common-2.12-1.80.42.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-devel-2.12-1.80.42.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-headers-2.12-1.80.42.amzn1.x86_64