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amazonAmazonALAS-2015-473
HistoryJan 27, 2015 - 11:41 a.m.

Critical: glibc

2015-01-2711:41:00
alas.aws.amazon.com
19

10 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.975 High

EPSS

Percentile

100.0%

Issue Overview:

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in glibc’s __nss_hostname_digits_dots() function, which is used by the gethostbyname() and gethostbyname2() glibc function calls. A remote attacker able to make an application call either of these functions could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application.

Special notes:

Because of the exceptional nature of this security event, we have backfilled our 2014.03 and 2013.09 Amazon Linux AMI repositories with new glibc packages that fix CVE-2015-0235.

For 2014.09 Amazon Linux AMIs, glibc-2.17-55.93.amzn1 addresses the CVE. Running <i>yum clean all</i> followed by yum update glibc will install the fixed package, and you should reboot your instance after installing the update.

For Amazon Linux AMIs locked (https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/faqs/#lock") to the 2014.03 repositories, the same glibc-2.17-55.93.amzn1 addresses the CVE. Running yum clean all followed by yum update glibc will install the fixed package, and you should reboot your instance after installing the update.

For Amazon Linux AMIs locked (https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/faqs/#lock) to the 2013.09 repositories, glibc-2.12-1.149.49.amzn1 addresses the CVE. Running yum clean all followed by yum update glibc will install the fixed package, and you should reboot your instance after installing the update.

For Amazon Linux AMIs locked (https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/faqs/#lock) to the 2013.03, 2012.09, 2012.03, or 2011.09 repositories, run yum clean all followed by yum --releasever=2013.09 update glibc to install the updated glibc package. You should reboot your instance after installing the update.

If you are using a pre-2011.09 Amazon Linux AMI, then you are using a version of the Amazon Linux AMI that was part of our public beta, and we encourage you to move to a newer version of the Amazon Linux AMI as soon as possible.

Affected Packages:

glibc

Issue Correction:
Run yum update glibc to update your system. Note that you may need to run yum clean all first. Once this update has been applied, reboot your instance to ensure that all processes and daemons that link against glibc are using the updated version. On new instance launches, you should still reboot after cloud-init has automatically applied this update.

New Packages:

i686:  
    glibc-static-2.17-55.93.amzn1.i686  
    glibc-common-2.17-55.93.amzn1.i686  
    nscd-2.17-55.93.amzn1.i686  
    glibc-devel-2.17-55.93.amzn1.i686  
    glibc-2.17-55.93.amzn1.i686  
    glibc-utils-2.17-55.93.amzn1.i686  
    glibc-debuginfo-2.17-55.93.amzn1.i686  
    glibc-headers-2.17-55.93.amzn1.i686  
    glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-55.93.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    glibc-2.17-55.93.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    glibc-utils-2.17-55.93.amzn1.x86_64  
    nscd-2.17-55.93.amzn1.x86_64  
    glibc-debuginfo-2.17-55.93.amzn1.x86_64  
    glibc-headers-2.17-55.93.amzn1.x86_64  
    glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-55.93.amzn1.x86_64  
    glibc-common-2.17-55.93.amzn1.x86_64  
    glibc-static-2.17-55.93.amzn1.x86_64  
    glibc-2.17-55.93.amzn1.x86_64  
    glibc-devel-2.17-55.93.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2015-0235

Mitre: CVE-2015-0235

10 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.975 High

EPSS

Percentile

100.0%