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Medium ALAS2-2019-1323 1 CVE

Moderate: keepalived security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Oct 21, 2019 · Updated Oct 23, 2019

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-19044: keepalived 2.0.8 didn't check for pathnames with symlinks when writing data to a temporary file upon a call to PrintData or PrintStats. This allowed local users to overwrite arbitrary files if fs.protected_symlinks is set to 0, as demonstrated by a symlink from /tmp/keepalived.data or /tmp/keepalived.stats to /etc/passwd. 99999: CVE-2018-19044 keepalived: Improper pathname validation allows for overwrite of arbitrary filenames via symlinks

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 keepalived 0:1.3.5-16.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 keepalived-debuginfo 0:1.3.5-16.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-19044.html