Amazon Linux AMI : tomcat8 (ALAS-2019-1208)

When the default servlet in Apache Tomcat returned a redirect to a directory e.g. redirecting to '/foo/' when the user requested '/foo' a specially crafted URL could be used to cause the redirect to be generated to any URI of the attackers choice. CVE-2018-11784 When running on Windows with...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2019-1205) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)

Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling MSBDS CVE-2018-12126 - Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampling MFBDS CVE-2018-12130 - Microarchitectural Load Port Data Sampling MLPDS CVE-2018-12127 - Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory MDSUM CVE-2019-11091 MSBDS leaks Store...

Amazon Linux AMI : mod24_auth_mellon (ALAS-2019-1200)

A vulnerability was found in modauthmellon. If Apache is configured as a reverse proxy and modauthmellon is configured to only let through authenticated users with the require valid-user directive, adding special HTTP headers that are normally used to start the special SAML ECP non-browser based...

Amazon Linux AMI : python34 (ALAS-2019-1202)

Python is affected by improper Handling of Unicode Encoding with an incorrect netloc during NFKC normalization. The impact is information disclosure credentials, cookies, etc. that are cached against a given hostname. The components are: urllib.parse.urlsplit, urllib.parse.urlparse. The attack...

Amazon Linux AMI : fuse (ALAS-2018-1123)

A vulnerability was discovered in fuse. When SELinux is active, fusermount is vulnerable to a restriction bypass. This allows non-root users to mount a FUSE file system with the 'allowother' mount option regardless of whether 'userallowother' is set in the fuse configuration. An attacker may use...

Amazon Linux AMI : wget (ALAS-2019-1194)

A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in GNU Wget. An attacker may be able to cause a denial-of-service DoS or may execute an arbitrary code. CVE-2019-5953 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security...

Monitoring AWS Golden AMI Pipelines with Slack

If your company uses Slack and is looking for ways to easily monitor activities in its AWS Golden AMI Pipeline, you can use AWS native services to send messages into a Slack channel. This can give your teams better visibility into the approval process for the candidate AMIs that they submit, as...

Ancestry: On the Vanguard of DevOps Security

Grant Johnson, Ancestry's Director, Risk & Compliance This is a guest post by Grant Johnson, Director, Risk & Compliance at Ancestry Over the past two years, Ancestry moved its entire applications and data infrastructure from local data centers to Amazon’s cloud, and this required a new approach...

Amazon Linux AMI : httpd24 (ALAS-2019-1189)

In Apache HTTP Server with MPM event, worker or prefork, code executing in less-privileged child processes or threads including scripts executed by an in-process scripting interpreter could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the parent process usually root by manipulating the scoreboar...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2019-1187)

To provide fine-grained controls over the ability to use Dynamic DNS DDNS to update records in a zone, BIND 9 provides a feature called update-policy. Various rules can be configured to limit the types of updates that can be performed by a client, depending on the key used when sending the update...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssl (ALAS-2019-1153)

The OpenSSL DSA signature algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a timing side channel attack. An attacker could use variations in the signing algorithm to recover the private key. CVE-2018-0734 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Amazon Linux AMI : nvidia (ALAS-2019-1182)

NVIDIA graphics driver contains a vulnerability that may allow access to application data processed on the GPU through a side channel exposed by the GPU performance counters. Local user access is required. This is not a network or remote attack vector. CVE-2018-6260 C Tenable Network Security, In...

Amazon Linux AMI : file (ALAS-2019-1186)

dobidnote in readelf.c in libmagic.a has a stack-based buffer over-read, related to fileprintf and filevprintf. CVE-2019-8904 docorenote in readelf.c in libmagic.a has a stack-based buffer over-read, related to fileprintable, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-10360 . CVE-2019-8905 docorenot...

Amazon Linux AMI : perl (ALAS-2019-1180)

Perl has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations. CVE-2018-18311 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2019-1180. include'compat.inc'; if...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2019-1179)

A kernel memory leak was found in the kernelreadfile function in the fs/exec.c file in the Linux kernel. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a memory leak and thus a denial of service DoS. CVE-2019-8980 A flaw was found in mmap in the Linux kernel allowing the process to map a null page. Thi...

Amazon Linux AMI : python27 / python34,python35,python36 (ALAS-2019-1169)

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability was found in the certificate parsing code in Python. This causes a denial of service to applications when parsing specially crafted certificates. This vulnerability is unlikely to be triggered if application enables SSL/TLS certificate validation and accep...

Amazon Linux AMI : libwmf (ALAS-2019-1174)

The GD Graphics Library aka LibGD has a double free in the gdImagePtr functions in gdgifout.c, gdjpeg.c, and gdwbmp.c. NOTE: PHP is unaffected. CVE-2019-6978 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.7.0-openjdk (ALAS-2019-1177)

Vulnerability in the Java SE component of Oracle Java SE subcomponent: Libraries. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker...

Amazon Linux AMI : squid (ALAS-2019-1176)

A memory leak was discovered in the way Squid handles SNMP denied queries. A remote attacker may use this flaw to exhaust the resources on the server machine. CVE-2018-19132 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AM...

Amazon Linux AMI : golang (ALAS-2019-1172)

Go mishandles P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption or possibly conduct ECDH private key recovery attacks. CVE-2019-6486 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazo...