Medium: libcap-ng

Issue Overview:

A flaw was found in the way seunshare, a utility for running executables under a different security context, used the capng_lock functionality of the libcap-ng library. The subsequent invocation of suid root binaries that relied on the fact that the setuid() system call, among others, also sets the saved set-user-ID when dropping the binaries’ process privileges, could allow a local, unprivileged user to potentially escalate their privileges on the system.

Affected Packages:

libcap-ng

Issue Correction:
Run yum update libcap-ng to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    libcap-ng-utils-0.7.3-5.13.amzn1.i686  
    libcap-ng-python-0.7.3-5.13.amzn1.i686  
    libcap-ng-debuginfo-0.7.3-5.13.amzn1.i686  
    libcap-ng-0.7.3-5.13.amzn1.i686  
    libcap-ng-devel-0.7.3-5.13.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    libcap-ng-0.7.3-5.13.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    libcap-ng-0.7.3-5.13.amzn1.x86_64  
    libcap-ng-debuginfo-0.7.3-5.13.amzn1.x86_64  
    libcap-ng-python-0.7.3-5.13.amzn1.x86_64  
    libcap-ng-devel-0.7.3-5.13.amzn1.x86_64  
    libcap-ng-utils-0.7.3-5.13.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2014-3215

Mitre: CVE-2014-3215