Amazon Linux 1 (EOL) Security Advisory: ALAS-2016-705
Advisory Released Date: 2016-06-02
Advisory Updated Date: 2016-06-03
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the tokenadd() function. By tricking a victim into processing a specially crafted JSON file, an attacker could use this flaw to crash jq or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the victim's system. (CVE-2015-8863)
Affected Packages:
jq
Issue Correction:
Run yum update jq to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
jq-libs-1.5-1.2.amzn1.i686
jq-1.5-1.2.amzn1.i686
jq-devel-1.5-1.2.amzn1.i686
jq-debuginfo-1.5-1.2.amzn1.i686
src:
jq-1.5-1.2.amzn1.src
x86_64:
jq-1.5-1.2.amzn1.x86_64
jq-devel-1.5-1.2.amzn1.x86_64
jq-debuginfo-1.5-1.2.amzn1.x86_64
jq-libs-1.5-1.2.amzn1.x86_64