Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-656)
🗓️ 11 Mar 2016 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AGType
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| alas | www.alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2016-656.html |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.120646");
script_cve_id("CVE-2014-0230", "CVE-2014-7810");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-03-11 05:09:10 +0000 (Fri, 11 Mar 2016)");
script_version("2025-01-23T05:37:39+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-01-23 05:37:39 +0000 (Thu, 23 Jan 2025)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_name("Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-656)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/amazon_linux", "ssh/login/release");
script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"ALAS-2016-656");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2016-656.html");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'tomcat6' package(s) announced via the ALAS-2016-656 advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"It was found that the expression language resolver evaluated expressions within a privileged code section. A malicious web application could use this flaw to bypass security manager protections. (CVE-2014-7810)
It was found that Tomcat would keep connections open after processing requests with a large enough request body. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to exhaust the pool of available connections and preventing further, legitimate connections to the Tomcat server to be made. (CVE-2014-0230)");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'tomcat6' package(s) on Amazon Linux.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
report = "";
if(release == "AMAZON") {
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat6", rpm:"tomcat6~6.0.44~1.3.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat6-admin-webapps", rpm:"tomcat6-admin-webapps~6.0.44~1.3.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat6-docs-webapp", rpm:"tomcat6-docs-webapp~6.0.44~1.3.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat6-el-2.1-api", rpm:"tomcat6-el-2.1-api~6.0.44~1.3.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat6-javadoc", rpm:"tomcat6-javadoc~6.0.44~1.3.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api", rpm:"tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api~6.0.44~1.3.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat6-lib", rpm:"tomcat6-lib~6.0.44~1.3.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api", rpm:"tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api~6.0.44~1.3.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat6-webapps", rpm:"tomcat6-webapps~6.0.44~1.3.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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CVSS 27.8
EPSS0.20318