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Amazon Linux Local Check: alas-2016-672

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

10.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

7 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Insight

Insight

An integer truncation flaw (CVE-2016-2315 ) and an integer overflow flaw (CVE-2016-2324 ), both leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, were found in the way Git processed certain path information. A remote attacker could create a specially crafted Git repository that would cause a Git client or server to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.

Solution

Solution

Run yum update git to update your system.

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