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Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1851
Advisory Release Date: 2023-09-27 22:15 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-10-06 00:51 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
A buffer overflow can occur when calculating the quantile value using the Statistics Library of GSL (GNU Scientific Library), versions 2.5 and 2.6. Processing a maliciously crafted input data for gsl_stats_quantile_from_sorted_data of the library may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2020-35357)
Affected Packages:
gsl
Issue Correction:
Run yum update gsl to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
gsl-debuginfo-1.13-4.4.amzn1.i686
gsl-1.13-4.4.amzn1.i686
gsl-static-1.13-4.4.amzn1.i686
gsl-devel-1.13-4.4.amzn1.i686
src:
gsl-1.13-4.4.amzn1.src
x86_64:
gsl-debuginfo-1.13-4.4.amzn1.x86_64
gsl-static-1.13-4.4.amzn1.x86_64
gsl-devel-1.13-4.4.amzn1.x86_64
gsl-1.13-4.4.amzn1.x86_64