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Amazon Linux Local Check: alas-2015-627
Information
Severity
Severity
Low
Family
Family
Amazon Linux Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
3.6
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
8 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
Amazon Linux Local Security Checks
Insight
Insight
A vulnerability in perl-IPTables-Parse was found, when using predictable file names for its temporary files. This vulnerability allows attacker on a multi-user system to set up symlinks to overwrite any file the current user has write access to.
Solution
Solution
Run yum update perl-IPTables-Parse to update your system.