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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for iproute (ALAS-2012-64) (CVE-2012-1088)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for iproute (ALAS-2012-64) (CVE-2012-1088)

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/15/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/28/2014
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

iproute2 before 3.3.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file used by (1) configure or (2) examples/dhcp-client-script.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-iproute
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-iproute-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-iproute-devel
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-iproute-doc

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