Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2015-481
Advisory Release Date: 2015-02-11 19:38 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2015-02-11 19:50 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
An assertion failure was found in the way the libyaml library parsed wrapped strings. An attacker able to load specially crafted YAML input into an application using libyaml could cause the application to crash. (CVE-2014-9130)
Affected Packages:
libyaml
Issue Correction:
Run yum update libyaml to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
libyaml-devel-0.1.6-6.7.amzn1.i686
libyaml-debuginfo-0.1.6-6.7.amzn1.i686
libyaml-0.1.6-6.7.amzn1.i686
src:
libyaml-0.1.6-6.7.amzn1.src
x86_64:
libyaml-0.1.6-6.7.amzn1.x86_64
libyaml-devel-0.1.6-6.7.amzn1.x86_64
libyaml-debuginfo-0.1.6-6.7.amzn1.x86_64