Medium: xinetd

Issue Overview:

It was found that xinetd ignored the user and group configuration directives for services running under the tcpmux-server service. This flaw could cause the associated services to run as root. If there was a flaw in such a service, a remote attacker could use it to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the root user. (CVE-2013-4342)

Affected Packages:

xinetd

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

New Packages:

i686:  
    xinetd-2.3.14-39.9.amzn1.i686  
    xinetd-debuginfo-2.3.14-39.9.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    xinetd-2.3.14-39.9.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    xinetd-debuginfo-2.3.14-39.9.amzn1.x86_64  
    xinetd-2.3.14-39.9.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2013-4342

Mitre: CVE-2013-4342