Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for glibc (ALAS-2015-617) (multiple CVEs)
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
04/08/2015
07/25/2018
12/18/2015
07/04/2017
Description
The ADDW macro in stdio-common/vfscanf.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.21 does not properly consider data-type size during memory allocation, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long line containing wide characters that are improperly handled in a wscanf call.
Solution(s)
- amazon-linux-upgrade-glibc
- amazon-linux-upgrade-glibc-common
- amazon-linux-upgrade-glibc-debuginfo
- amazon-linux-upgrade-glibc-debuginfo-common
- amazon-linux-upgrade-glibc-devel
- amazon-linux-upgrade-glibc-headers
- amazon-linux-upgrade-glibc-static
- amazon-linux-upgrade-glibc-utils
- amazon-linux-upgrade-nscd
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