ALAS-2014-384

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-1545  

Mozilla Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) before 4.10.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via vectors involving the sprintf and console functions.

ALAS-2014-384


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-384
Advisory Release Date: 2014-07-23 14:07 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-19 11:38 Pacific
Severity: Critical
References: CVE-2014-1545 

Issue Overview:

Mozilla Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) before 4.10.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via vectors involving the sprintf and console functions.


Affected Packages:

nspr


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

New Packages:
i686:
    nspr-debuginfo-4.10.4-1.22.amzn1.i686
    nspr-4.10.4-1.22.amzn1.i686
    nspr-devel-4.10.4-1.22.amzn1.i686

src:
    nspr-4.10.4-1.22.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    nspr-4.10.4-1.22.amzn1.x86_64
    nspr-debuginfo-4.10.4-1.22.amzn1.x86_64
    nspr-devel-4.10.4-1.22.amzn1.x86_64