ALAS-2024-1930

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-2961  

The iconv() function in the GNU C Library versions 2.39 and older may overflow the output buffer passed to it by up to 4 bytes when converting strings to the ISO-2022-CN-EXT character set, which may be used to crash an application or overwrite a neighbouring variable. (CVE-2024-2961)

ALAS-2024-1930


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-1930
Advisory Release Date: 2024-04-25 16:04 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-04-25 16:04 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

The iconv() function in the GNU C Library versions 2.39 and older may overflow the output buffer passed to it by up to 4 bytes when converting strings to the ISO-2022-CN-EXT character set, which may be used to crash an application or overwrite a neighbouring variable. (CVE-2024-2961)


Affected Packages:

glibc


Issue Correction:
Run yum update glibc to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    nscd-2.17-324.190.amzn1.i686
    glibc-static-2.17-324.190.amzn1.i686
    glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-324.190.amzn1.i686
    glibc-headers-2.17-324.190.amzn1.i686
    glibc-devel-2.17-324.190.amzn1.i686
    glibc-utils-2.17-324.190.amzn1.i686
    glibc-debuginfo-2.17-324.190.amzn1.i686
    glibc-2.17-324.190.amzn1.i686
    glibc-common-2.17-324.190.amzn1.i686

src:
    glibc-2.17-324.190.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    glibc-utils-2.17-324.190.amzn1.x86_64
    glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-324.190.amzn1.x86_64
    glibc-devel-2.17-324.190.amzn1.x86_64
    glibc-static-2.17-324.190.amzn1.x86_64
    glibc-common-2.17-324.190.amzn1.x86_64
    glibc-headers-2.17-324.190.amzn1.x86_64
    glibc-debuginfo-2.17-324.190.amzn1.x86_64
    glibc-2.17-324.190.amzn1.x86_64
    nscd-2.17-324.190.amzn1.x86_64