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Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-400
Advisory Release Date: 2014-09-17 21:41 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-19 11:58 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
References:
CVE-2014-0475
Issue Overview:
A directory traveral flaw was found in the way glibc loaded locale files. An attacker able to make an application use a specially crafted locale name value (for example, specified in an LC_* environment variable) could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of that application.
Affected Packages:
glibc
Issue Correction:
Run yum update glibc to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
glibc-debuginfo-2.17-55.86.amzn1.i686
glibc-2.17-55.86.amzn1.i686
glibc-common-2.17-55.86.amzn1.i686
glibc-devel-2.17-55.86.amzn1.i686
glibc-utils-2.17-55.86.amzn1.i686
glibc-static-2.17-55.86.amzn1.i686
glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-55.86.amzn1.i686
nscd-2.17-55.86.amzn1.i686
glibc-headers-2.17-55.86.amzn1.i686
src:
glibc-2.17-55.86.amzn1.src
x86_64:
glibc-common-2.17-55.86.amzn1.x86_64
nscd-2.17-55.86.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-static-2.17-55.86.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-2.17-55.86.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-devel-2.17-55.86.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-debuginfo-2.17-55.86.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-55.86.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-utils-2.17-55.86.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-headers-2.17-55.86.amzn1.x86_64