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Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-859
Advisory Release Date: 2017-07-20 01:22 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2017-07-24 23:38 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
References:
CVE-2017-1000381
Issue Overview:
The c-ares function `ares_parse_naptr_reply()`, which is used for parsing NAPTR responses, could be triggered to read memory outside of the given input buffer if the passed in DNS response packet was crafted in a particular way. ( CVE-2017-1000381 )
Affected Packages:
c-ares
Issue Correction:
Run yum update c-ares to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
c-ares-devel-1.13.0-1.5.amzn1.i686
c-ares-debuginfo-1.13.0-1.5.amzn1.i686
c-ares-1.13.0-1.5.amzn1.i686
src:
c-ares-1.13.0-1.5.amzn1.src
x86_64:
c-ares-devel-1.13.0-1.5.amzn1.x86_64
c-ares-1.13.0-1.5.amzn1.x86_64
c-ares-debuginfo-1.13.0-1.5.amzn1.x86_64