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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-10713: Security patch for patch (ALAS-2019-1312)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-10713: Security patch for patch (ALAS-2019-1312)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/13/2018
Created
11/09/2019
Added
11/07/2019
Modified
11/07/2019

Description

An issue was discovered in GNU patch before 2.7.6. Out-of-bounds access within pch_write_line() in pch.c can possibly lead to DoS via a crafted input file.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-patch

References

  • ALAS-2019-1312
  • 103063
  • USN-3624-1
  • USN-3624-2
  • CVE-2016-10713

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