Vulmon
Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1374
Advisory Release Date: 2019-12-13 19:36 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-12-18 01:27 Pacific
Severity:
Low
Issue Overview:
There is an illegal address access at ext/testcase.c in libsolv.a in libsolv through 0.7.2 that will cause a denial of service. NOTE: third parties dispute this issue stating that the issue affects the test suite and not the underlying library. It cannot be exploited in any real-world application.(CVE-2018-20534)
There is a NULL pointer dereference at ext/testcase.c (function testcase_read) in libsolvext.a in libsolv through 0.7.2 that will cause a denial of service.(CVE-2018-20532)
There is a NULL pointer dereference at ext/testcase.c (function testcase_str2dep_complex) in libsolvext.a in libsolv through 0.7.2 that will cause a denial of service.(CVE-2018-20533)
Affected Packages:
libsolv
Issue Correction:
Run yum update libsolv to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
libsolv-0.6.34-4.amzn2.aarch64
libsolv-devel-0.6.34-4.amzn2.aarch64
libsolv-tools-0.6.34-4.amzn2.aarch64
libsolv-demo-0.6.34-4.amzn2.aarch64
python2-solv-0.6.34-4.amzn2.aarch64
libsolv-debuginfo-0.6.34-4.amzn2.aarch64
i686:
libsolv-0.6.34-4.amzn2.i686
libsolv-devel-0.6.34-4.amzn2.i686
libsolv-tools-0.6.34-4.amzn2.i686
libsolv-demo-0.6.34-4.amzn2.i686
python2-solv-0.6.34-4.amzn2.i686
libsolv-debuginfo-0.6.34-4.amzn2.i686
src:
libsolv-0.6.34-4.amzn2.src
x86_64:
libsolv-0.6.34-4.amzn2.x86_64
libsolv-devel-0.6.34-4.amzn2.x86_64
libsolv-tools-0.6.34-4.amzn2.x86_64
libsolv-demo-0.6.34-4.amzn2.x86_64
python2-solv-0.6.34-4.amzn2.x86_64
libsolv-debuginfo-0.6.34-4.amzn2.x86_64