Amazon Linux AMI : git (ALAS-2017-882)

Command injection via malicious ssh URLs : A shell command injection flaw related to the handling of 'ssh' URLs has been discovered in Git. An attacker could use this flaw to execute shell commands with the privileges of the user running the Git client, for example, when performing a 'clone' acti...

Amazon Linux AMI : aws-cfn-bootstrap (ALAS-2017-886)

New optional parameter 'umask' introduced into cfn-hup.conf file in order to configure the cfn-hup daemon's umask. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2017-886. include"compat.inc"; if...

Amazon Linux AMI : tomcat7 (ALAS-2017-873)

Security constrained bypass in error page mechanism : While investigating bug 60718, it was noticed that some calls to application listeners in Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M17, 8.5.0 to 8.5.11, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.41, and 7.0.0 to 7.0.75 did not use the appropriate facade object. When running an...

Amazon Linux AMI : cacti (ALAS-2017-874)

spikekill.php in Cacti before 1.1.16 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the avgnan, outlier-start, or outlier-end parameter. CVE-2017-12065 Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in aggregategraphs.php in Cacti before 1.1.16 allows remote authenticated users to inject...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2017-870)

Buffer overflow in mpoverridelegacyirq : Buffer overflow in the mpoverridelegacyirq function in arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c in the Linux kernel through 4.12.2 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted ACPI table. CVE-2017-11473 A race between inotifyhandleevent and sysrename : A race...

Race condition

A vulnerability has been identified in some Lenovo products that use UEFI BIOS code developed by American Megatrends, Inc. AMI. With this vulnerability, conditions exist where an attacker with administrative privileges or physical access to a system may be able to run specially crafted code that...

CVE-2017-3753

A vulnerability has been identified in some Lenovo products that use UEFI BIOS code developed by American Megatrends, Inc. AMI. With this vulnerability, conditions exist where an attacker with administrative privileges or physical access to a system may be able to run specially crafted code that...

CVE-2017-3753

CVE-2017-3753 affects Lenovo systems using AMI UEFI BIOS. Root cause: BIOS SMI Handler input validation failure allowing code execution in System Management Mode. Impact: attacker with local admin access could bypass protections (e.g., Device Guard, Hyper-V). Affected products are Lenovo machines...

Amazon Linux AMI : php70 (ALAS-2017-867)

Out-of-bounds heap write in bitsetsetrange : An issue was discovered in Oniguruma 6.2.0, as used in Oniguruma-mod in Ruby through 2.4.1 and mbstring in PHP through 7.1.5. A heap out-of-bounds write occurs in bitsetsetrange during regular expression compilation due to an uninitialized variable fro...

Amazon Linux AMI : httpd24 (ALAS-2017-863)

apfindtoken buffer overread : A buffer over-read flaw was found in the httpd's apfindtoken function. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause httpd child process to crash via a specially crafted HTTP request. CVE-2017-7668 Apache HTTP Request Parsing Whitespace Defects : It was discovered...

Amazon Linux AMI : libtommath / libtomcrypt (ALAS-2017-864)

possible OP-TEE Bleichenbacher attack : The rsaverifyhashex function in rsaverifyhash.c in LibTomCrypt, as used in OP-TEE before 2.2.0, does not validate that the message length is equal to the ASN.1 encoded data length, which makes it easier for remote attackers to forge RSA signatures or public...

Amazon Linux AMI : tomcat8 (ALAS-2017-862)

Security constrained bypass in error page mechanism : A vulnerability was discovered in the error page mechanism in Tomcat's DefaultServlet implementation. A crafted HTTP request could cause undesired side effects, possibly including the removal or replacement of the custom error page...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2017-858)

Security Fixes: A flaw was found in the way BIND handled TSIG authentication for dynamic updates. A remote attacker able to communicate with an authoritative BIND server could use this flaw to manipulate the contents of a zone, by forging a valid TSIG or SIG0 signature for a dynamic update reques...

Amazon Linux AMI : golang (ALAS-2017-857)

Golang: Elliptic curves carry propagation issue in x86-64 P-256. A carry propagation flaw was found in the implementation of the P-256 elliptic curve in golang. An attacker could use this flaw to extract private keys when static ECDH is used. CVE-2017-8932 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Amazon Linux AMI : sudo (ALAS-2017-855)

It was found that the original fix for CVE-2017-1000367 was incomplete. A flaw was found in the way sudo parsed tty information from the process status file in the proc filesystem. A local user with privileges to execute commands via sudo could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root...

Amazon Linux AMI : tomcat8 (ALAS-2017-854)

Security constrained bypass in error page mechanism : A vulnerability was discovered in the error page mechanism in Tomcat's DefaultServlet implementation. A crafted HTTP request could cause undesired side effects, possibly including the removal or replacement of the custom error page...

Amazon Linux AMI : mercurial (ALAS-2017-856)

Python debugger accessible to authorized users : A flaw was found in the way 'hg serve --stdio' command in Mercurial handled command-line options. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the Mercurial server by using specially crafted command-line options...

Amazon Linux AMI : openvpn (ALAS-2017-852)

OpenVPN versions before 2.4.3 and before 2.3.17 are vulnerable to remote denial-of-service when receiving malformed IPv6 packet. CVE-2017-7508 OpenVPN versions before 2.4.3 and before 2.3.17 are vulnerable to denial-of-service by authenticated remote attacker via sending a certificate with an...

Amazon Linux AMI : lynis (ALAS-2017-847)

Unspecified tests in Lynis before 2.5.0 allow local users to write to arbitrary files or possibly gain privileges via a symlink attack on a temporary file. CVE-2017-8108 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2017-846)

Module reference leak due to improper shut down of callback channel on umount : The NFSv4 implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.11.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service resource consumption by leveraging improper channel callback shutdown when unmounting an NFSv4 filesystem, ak...