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Medium ALAS2023-2023-342 1 CVE

Moderate: gcc security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Sep 8, 2023 · Updated Sep 12, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-4039: An issue was found in a defense in depth feature of the GCC compiler on aarch64 platforms. The stack protector feature (-fstack-protector) did not detect or defend against overflows of dynamically-sized local variables. This update to the GCC compiler remedies code generation for this defense in depth feature, ensuring it is working as intended. Customers building their own binaries with GCC are advised to update their compiler, and to ensure they are enabling the defense in depth options available to them, such as the stack protector.

Fixed packages 55

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 cpp 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 cpp-debuginfo 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 gcc 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 gcc-c++ 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 gcc-c++-debuginfo 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 gcc-debuginfo 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 gcc-debugsource 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 gcc-gdb-plugin 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 gcc-gdb-plugin-debuginfo 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 gcc-gfortran 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 gcc-gfortran-debuginfo 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 gcc-offload-nvptx 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 gcc-offload-nvptx-debuginfo 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 gcc-plugin-devel 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 gcc-plugin-devel-debuginfo 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libasan 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libasan-debuginfo 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libasan-static 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libatomic 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libatomic-debuginfo 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libatomic-static 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libgcc 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libgcc-debuginfo 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libgccjit 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libgccjit-debuginfo 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libgccjit-devel 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libgfortran 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libgfortran-debuginfo 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libgfortran-static 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libgomp 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libgomp-debuginfo 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libgomp-offload-nvptx 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libgomp-offload-nvptx-debuginfo 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libitm 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libitm-debuginfo 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libitm-devel 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libitm-static 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 liblsan 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 liblsan-debuginfo 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 liblsan-static 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libquadmath 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libquadmath-debuginfo 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libquadmath-devel 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libquadmath-static 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libstdc++ 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libstdc++-debuginfo 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libstdc++-devel 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libstdc++-docs 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libstdc++-static 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtsan 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtsan-debuginfo 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtsan-static 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libubsan 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libubsan-debuginfo 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libubsan-static 0:11.4.1-2.amzn2023.0.2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 4.8

    GCC's-fstack-protector fails to guard dynamically-sized local variables on AArch64

    **DISPUTED**A failure in the -fstack-protector feature in GCC-based toolchains that target AArch64 allows an attacker to exploit an existing buffer overflow in dynamically-sized local variables in your application without this being detected. This stack-prote…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-4039.html