Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-293
Advisory Release Date: 2014-02-26 14:28 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-16 22:33 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
Buffer overflow in the socket.recvfrom_into function in Modules/socketmodule.c in Python 2.5 before 2.7.7, 3.x before 3.3.4, and 3.4.x before 3.4rc1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string.
Affected Packages:
python27
Issue Correction:
Run yum update python27 to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
python27-tools-2.7.5-11.32.amzn1.i686
python27-test-2.7.5-11.32.amzn1.i686
python27-2.7.5-11.32.amzn1.i686
python27-debuginfo-2.7.5-11.32.amzn1.i686
python27-libs-2.7.5-11.32.amzn1.i686
python27-devel-2.7.5-11.32.amzn1.i686
src:
python27-2.7.5-11.32.amzn1.src
x86_64:
python27-tools-2.7.5-11.32.amzn1.x86_64
python27-libs-2.7.5-11.32.amzn1.x86_64
python27-devel-2.7.5-11.32.amzn1.x86_64
python27-2.7.5-11.32.amzn1.x86_64
python27-debuginfo-2.7.5-11.32.amzn1.x86_64
python27-test-2.7.5-11.32.amzn1.x86_64