Medium: glibc

Issue Overview:

A directory traveral flaw was found in the way glibc loaded locale files. An attacker able to make an application use a specially crafted locale name value (for example, specified in an LC_* environment variable) could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of that application.

Affected Packages:

glibc

Issue Correction:
Run yum update glibc to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    glibc-debuginfo-2.17-55.86.amzn1.i686  
    glibc-2.17-55.86.amzn1.i686  
    glibc-common-2.17-55.86.amzn1.i686  
    glibc-devel-2.17-55.86.amzn1.i686  
    glibc-utils-2.17-55.86.amzn1.i686  
    glibc-static-2.17-55.86.amzn1.i686  
    glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-55.86.amzn1.i686  
    nscd-2.17-55.86.amzn1.i686  
    glibc-headers-2.17-55.86.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    glibc-2.17-55.86.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    glibc-common-2.17-55.86.amzn1.x86_64  
    nscd-2.17-55.86.amzn1.x86_64  
    glibc-static-2.17-55.86.amzn1.x86_64  
    glibc-2.17-55.86.amzn1.x86_64  
    glibc-devel-2.17-55.86.amzn1.x86_64  
    glibc-debuginfo-2.17-55.86.amzn1.x86_64  
    glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-55.86.amzn1.x86_64  
    glibc-utils-2.17-55.86.amzn1.x86_64  
    glibc-headers-2.17-55.86.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2014-0475

Mitre: CVE-2014-0475