Low: coreutils

Issue Overview:

It was discovered that the sort, uniq, and join utilities did not properly restrict the use of the alloca() function. An attacker could use this flaw to crash those utilities by providing long input strings. (CVE-2013-0221, CVE-2013-0222, CVE-2013-0223)

Affected Packages:

coreutils

Issue Correction:
Run yum update coreutils to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    coreutils-libs-8.4-31.17.amzn1.i686  
    coreutils-8.4-31.17.amzn1.i686  
    coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.17.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    coreutils-8.4-31.17.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    coreutils-libs-8.4-31.17.amzn1.x86_64  
    coreutils-8.4-31.17.amzn1.x86_64  
    coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.17.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2013-0221, CVE-2013-0222, CVE-2013-0223

Mitre: CVE-2013-0221, CVE-2013-0222, CVE-2013-0223