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Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-357
Advisory Release Date: 2014-06-15 16:20 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-19 10:23 Pacific
Severity:
Low
References:
CVE-2014-2524
Issue Overview:
The _rl_tropen function in util.c in GNU readline before 6.3 patch 3 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /var/tmp/rltrace.[PID] file.
Affected Packages:
readline
Issue Correction:
Run yum update readline to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
readline-debuginfo-6.2-9.14.amzn1.i686
readline-6.2-9.14.amzn1.i686
readline-devel-6.2-9.14.amzn1.i686
readline-static-6.2-9.14.amzn1.i686
src:
readline-6.2-9.14.amzn1.src
x86_64:
readline-debuginfo-6.2-9.14.amzn1.x86_64
readline-static-6.2-9.14.amzn1.x86_64
readline-6.2-9.14.amzn1.x86_64
readline-devel-6.2-9.14.amzn1.x86_64