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Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2020-1456
Advisory Release Date: 2020-12-08 19:28 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2020-12-08 23:28 Pacific
Severity:
Important
References:
CVE-2020-1971
Issue Overview:
A null pointer dereference flaw was found in openssl. A remote attacker, able to control the arguments of the GENERAL_NAME_cmp function, could cause the application, compiled with openssl to crash resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2020-1971)
Affected Packages:
openssl
Issue Correction:
Run yum update openssl to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
openssl-debuginfo-1.0.2k-16.152.amzn1.i686
openssl-static-1.0.2k-16.152.amzn1.i686
openssl-1.0.2k-16.152.amzn1.i686
openssl-perl-1.0.2k-16.152.amzn1.i686
openssl-devel-1.0.2k-16.152.amzn1.i686
src:
openssl-1.0.2k-16.152.amzn1.src
x86_64:
openssl-1.0.2k-16.152.amzn1.x86_64
openssl-perl-1.0.2k-16.152.amzn1.x86_64
openssl-devel-1.0.2k-16.152.amzn1.x86_64
openssl-debuginfo-1.0.2k-16.152.amzn1.x86_64
openssl-static-1.0.2k-16.152.amzn1.x86_64