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Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2012-41)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

8 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update announced via the referenced Security Advisory.

Insight

Insight

It was discovered that the fix for CVE-2011-4885 introduced an uninitialized memory use flaw. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted HTTP request to cause the PHP interpreter to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.

Solution

Solution

Run yum update php to update your system.

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