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Amazon Linux Local Check: ALAS-2014-440
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Amazon Linux Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
8 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
Amazon Linux Local Security Checks
Insight
Insight
It was discovered that Python built-in module CGIHTTPServer does not properly handle URL-encoded path separators in URLs which may enable attackers to disclose a CGI script's source code or execute arbitrary scripts in the server's document root. (CVE-2014-4650 )Integer overflow in bufferobject.c in Python before 2.7.8 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a large size and offset in a buffer function. (CVE-2014-7185 )
Solution
Solution
Run yum update python27 to update your system.