Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-286
Advisory Release Date: 2014-02-03 15:28 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-16 22:30 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
A flaw was found in the way Augeas handled certain umask settings when creating new configuration files. This flaw could result in configuration files being created as world writable, allowing unprivileged local users to modify their content. (CVE-2013-6412)
Affected Packages:
augeas
Issue Correction:
Run yum update augeas to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
augeas-1.0.0-5.7.amzn1.i686
augeas-debuginfo-1.0.0-5.7.amzn1.i686
augeas-devel-1.0.0-5.7.amzn1.i686
augeas-libs-1.0.0-5.7.amzn1.i686
src:
augeas-1.0.0-5.7.amzn1.src
x86_64:
augeas-1.0.0-5.7.amzn1.x86_64
augeas-devel-1.0.0-5.7.amzn1.x86_64
augeas-libs-1.0.0-5.7.amzn1.x86_64
augeas-debuginfo-1.0.0-5.7.amzn1.x86_64