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Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2016-660
Advisory Release Date: 2016-03-10 16:30 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2016-03-10 16:30 Pacific
Severity:
Low
References:
CVE-2015-5229
Issue Overview:
It was discovered that the calloc implementation in glibc could return memory areas which contain non-zero bytes. This could result in unexpected application behavior such as hangs or crashes.
Affected Packages:
glibc
Issue Correction:
Run yum update glibc to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
glibc-debuginfo-2.17-106.167.amzn1.i686
glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-106.167.amzn1.i686
glibc-devel-2.17-106.167.amzn1.i686
glibc-headers-2.17-106.167.amzn1.i686
nscd-2.17-106.167.amzn1.i686
glibc-utils-2.17-106.167.amzn1.i686
glibc-2.17-106.167.amzn1.i686
glibc-common-2.17-106.167.amzn1.i686
glibc-static-2.17-106.167.amzn1.i686
src:
glibc-2.17-106.167.amzn1.src
x86_64:
glibc-2.17-106.167.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-static-2.17-106.167.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-headers-2.17-106.167.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-utils-2.17-106.167.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-devel-2.17-106.167.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-common-2.17-106.167.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-106.167.amzn1.x86_64
nscd-2.17-106.167.amzn1.x86_64
glibc-debuginfo-2.17-106.167.amzn1.x86_64