Amazon Linux AMI update for xterm



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2021-27135
CWE-ID CWE-119
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 Amazon Linux AMI
Operating systems & Components / Operating system

Vendor Amazon Web Services

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Memory corruption

EUVDB-ID: #VU50810

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2021-27135

CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing UTF-8 character sequences. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger memory corruption and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Update the affected packages:

i686:
    xterm-295-3.15.amzn1.i686
    xterm-debuginfo-295-3.15.amzn1.i686

src:
    xterm-295-3.15.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    xterm-295-3.15.amzn1.x86_64
    xterm-debuginfo-295-3.15.amzn1.x86_64

Vulnerable software versions

Amazon Linux AMI: All versions

CPE2.3 External links

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2021-1489.html


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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