vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-1000366: Security patch for glibc (ALAS-2017-844)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Jun 19, 2017 | Jul 1, 2017 | Oct 14, 2022 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jun 19, 2017
Added
Jul 1, 2017
Modified
Oct 14, 2022
Description
glibc contains a vulnerability that allows specially crafted LD_LIBRARY_PATH values to manipulate the heap/stack, causing them to alias, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution. Please note that additional hardening changes have been made to glibc to prevent manipulation of stack and heap memory but these issues are not directly exploitable, as such they have not been given a CVE. This affects glibc 2.25 and earlier.
Solution
amazon-linux-upgrade-glibc
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