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High ALAS2-2020-1567 1 CVE

Important: libX11 security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Dec 8, 2020 · Updated Dec 8, 2020

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-14363: An integer overflow vulnerability leading to a double-free was found in libX11. This flaw allows a local privileged attacker to cause an application compiled with libX11 to crash, or in some cases, result in arbitrary code execution. The highest threat from this flaw is to confidentiality, integrity as well as system availability. 1872473: CVE-2020-14363 libX11: integer overflow leads to double free in locale handling

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 libX11 0:1.6.7-3.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 libX11-common 0:1.6.7-3.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 libX11-debuginfo 0:1.6.7-3.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 libX11-devel 0:1.6.7-3.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-14363.html