Medium: glibc

Issue Overview:

In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.28, the getaddrinfo function would successfully parse a string that contained an IPv4 address followed by whitespace and arbitrary characters, which could lead applications to incorrectly assume that it had parsed a valid string, without the possibility of embedded HTTP headers or other potentially dangerous substrings. (CVE-2016-10739)

Affected Packages:

glibc

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

New Packages:

i686:  
    nscd-2.17-292.178.amzn1.i686  
    glibc-common-2.17-292.178.amzn1.i686  
    glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-292.178.amzn1.i686  
    glibc-devel-2.17-292.178.amzn1.i686  
    glibc-static-2.17-292.178.amzn1.i686  
    glibc-debuginfo-2.17-292.178.amzn1.i686  
    glibc-utils-2.17-292.178.amzn1.i686  
    glibc-2.17-292.178.amzn1.i686  
    glibc-headers-2.17-292.178.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    glibc-2.17-292.178.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    glibc-static-2.17-292.178.amzn1.x86_64  
    glibc-headers-2.17-292.178.amzn1.x86_64  
    glibc-2.17-292.178.amzn1.x86_64  
    glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-292.178.amzn1.x86_64  
    glibc-devel-2.17-292.178.amzn1.x86_64  
    nscd-2.17-292.178.amzn1.x86_64  
    glibc-common-2.17-292.178.amzn1.x86_64  
    glibc-debuginfo-2.17-292.178.amzn1.x86_64  
    glibc-utils-2.17-292.178.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2016-10739

Mitre: CVE-2016-10739