Amazon Linux AMI : curl (ALAS-2016-766)

This build resolves the following issues : CVE-2016-8615 : Cookie injection for other servers CVE-2016-8616 : Case insensitive password comparison CVE-2016-8617 : Out-of-bounds write via unchecked multiplication CVE-2016-8618 : Double-free in curlmaprintf CVE-2016-8619 : Double-free in krb5 code...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2016-762)

The IP stack in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service stack consumption and panic or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering use of the GRO path for packets with tunnel stacking, as demonstrated by interleaved IPv4 headers and GRE headers, a...

Amazon Linux AMI : cloud-init (ALAS-2016-763)

It was discovered that cloud-init in the Amazon Linux AMI wrote IAM role credentials from the instance metadata service to files readable by the root user in /var/lib/cloud. An application with root privileges, a container with access to the relevant files, or a root user of an AMI derived from a...

Important: cloud-init

Issue Overview: It was discovered that cloud-init in the Amazon Linux AMI wrote IAM role credentials from the instance metadata service to files readable by the root user in /var/lib/cloud. An application with root privileges, a container with access to the relevant files, or a root user of an AM...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.8.0-openjdk (ALAS-2016-759)

It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK did not properly check arguments of the System.arraycopy function in certain cases. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to corrupt virtual machine's memory and completely bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2016-558...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2016-758)

CVE-2016-2848 bind: assertion failure triggered by a packet with malformed options A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND handled packets with malformed options. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS...

Amazon Linux AMI : php56 (ALAS-2016-753)

ext/standard/varunserializer.re in PHP before 5.6.26 mishandles object-deserialization failures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact via an unserialize call that references a partially constructed object...

Amazon Linux AMI : php70 (ALAS-2016-754)

ext/mysqlnd/mysqlndwireprotocol.c in PHP before 5.6.26 and 7.x before 7.0.11 does not verify that a BIT field has the UNSIGNEDFLAG flag, which allows remote MySQL servers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer overflow or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted field metadata...

Amazon Linux AMI : GraphicsMagick (ALAS-2016-752)

A possible heap overflow was discovered in the EscapeParenthesis function CVE-2016-7447. Various issues were found in the processing of SVG files in GraphicsMagick CVE-2016-7446. The TIFF reader had a bug pertaining to use of TIFFGetField when a 'count' value is returned. The bug caused a heap re...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2016-751)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND constructed a response to a query that met certain criteria. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS request packet. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Amazon Linux AMI : curl (ALAS-2016-742)

After testing original CVE-2016-5420 patch, it was discovered that libcurl built on top of NSS Network Security Services still incorrectly re-uses client certificates if a certificate from file is used for one TLS connection but no certificate is set for a subsequent TLS connection. C Tenable...

Amazon Linux AMI : libarchive (ALAS-2016-743)

A flaw was found in the way libarchive handled hardlink archive entries of non-zero size. Combined with flaws in libarchive's file system sandboxing, this issue could cause an application using libarchive to overwrite arbitrary files with arbitrary data from the archive. CVE-2016-5418 Multiple...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssl (ALAS-2016-749)

A memory leak flaw was found in the way OpenSSL handled TLS status request extension data during session renegotiation. A remote attacker could cause a TLS server using OpenSSL to consume an excessive amount of memory and, possibly, exit unexpectedly after exhausting all available memory, if it...

CVE-2016-5247

The BIOS for Lenovo ThinkCentre E93, M6500t/s, M6600, M6600q, M6600t/s, M73p, M800, M83, M8500t/s, M8600t/s, M900, M93, and M93P devices; ThinkServer RQ940, RS140, TS140, TS240, TS440, and TS540 devices; and ThinkStation E32, P300, and P310 devices might allow local users or physically proximate...

Design/Logic Flaw

The BIOS for Lenovo ThinkCentre E93, M6500t/s, M6600, M6600q, M6600t/s, M73p, M800, M83, M8500t/s, M8600t/s, M900, M93, and M93P devices; ThinkServer RQ940, RS140, TS140, TS240, TS440, and TS540 devices; and ThinkStation E32, P300, and P310 devices might allow local users or physically proximate...

CVE-2016-5247

The BIOS for Lenovo ThinkCentre E93, M6500t/s, M6600, M6600q, M6600t/s, M73p, M800, M83, M8500t/s, M8600t/s, M900, M93, and M93P devices; ThinkServer RQ940, RS140, TS140, TS240, TS440, and TS540 devices; and ThinkStation E32, P300, and P310 devices might allow local users or physically proximate...

CVE-2016-5247

The CVE-2016-5247 issue concerns Lenovo systems (ThinkCentre M-series, ThinkServer TS/RS, ThinkStation E32/P300/P310, among others) where AMI BIOS test keys could allow local or physically proximate attackers to bypass Secure Boot. The Lenovo advisory LEN-7806 notes a test certificate/key was mis...

Amazon Linux AMI : postgresql92 / postgresql93,postgresql94 (ALAS-2016-747)

A flaw was found in the way PostgreSQL server handled certain SQL statements containing CASE/WHEN commands. A remote, authenticated attacker could use a specially crafted SQL statement to cause PostgreSQL to crash or disclose a few bytes of server memory or possibly execute arbitrary code...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.6.0-openjdk (ALAS-2016-748)

An insufficient bytecode verification flaw was discovered in the Hotspot component in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to completely bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2016-3606 Multiple denial of service flaws were found in the JAXP component in OpenJDK. A...

Amazon Linux AMI : lighttpd (ALAS-2016-746)

It was discovered that lighttpd class did not properly protect against the HTTPPROXY variable name clash in a CGI context. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to redirect HTTP requests performed by a CGI script to an attacker-controlled proxy via a malicious HTTP request. C Tenable...