ALAS-2024-1925


Amazon Linux 1 (EOL) Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-1925
Advisory Released Date: 2024-03-04
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-03-04
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

cpio 2.11, when using the --no-absolute-filenames option, allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an archive. (CVE-2015-1197)


Affected Packages:

cpio


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

New Packages:
i686:
    cpio-2.10-12.13.amzn1.i686
    cpio-debuginfo-2.10-12.13.amzn1.i686

src:
    cpio-2.10-12.13.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    cpio-2.10-12.13.amzn1.x86_64
    cpio-debuginfo-2.10-12.13.amzn1.x86_64