Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-78
Advisory Release Date: 2012-05-21 16:47 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 16:11 Pacific
Severity:
Low
Issue Overview:
The rio_ioctl function in drivers/net/ethernet/dlink/dl2k.c in the Linux kernel before 3.3.7 does not restrict access to the SIOCSMIIREG command, which allows local users to write data to an Ethernet adapter via an ioctl call.
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-3.2.18-1.26.6.amzn1.i686
kernel-headers-3.2.18-1.26.6.amzn1.i686
kernel-3.2.18-1.26.6.amzn1.i686
kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-3.2.18-1.26.6.amzn1.i686
kernel-debuginfo-3.2.18-1.26.6.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.2.18-1.26.6.amzn1.i686
kernel-devel-3.2.18-1.26.6.amzn1.i686
noarch:
kernel-doc-3.2.18-1.26.6.amzn1.noarch
src:
kernel-3.2.18-1.26.6.amzn1.src
x86_64:
kernel-tools-3.2.18-1.26.6.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-3.2.18-1.26.6.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-3.2.18-1.26.6.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.2.18-1.26.6.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-devel-3.2.18-1.26.6.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-headers-3.2.18-1.26.6.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.2.18-1.26.6.amzn1.x86_64