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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.

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