Amazon Linux AMI : jakarta-commons-httpclient (ALAS-2014-410)

Apache Commons HttpClient 3.x, as used in Amazon Flexible Payments Service FPS merchant Java SDK and other products, does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name CN or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle...

Amazon Linux AMI : python27 (ALAS-2014-380)

It was reported that Python built-in json module have a flaw insufficient bounds checking, which allows a local user to read current process' arbitrary memory. Quoting the upstream bug report : 'The sole prerequisites of this attack are that the attacker is able to control or influence the two...

Amazon Linux AMI : php54 (ALAS-2014-343)

The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildcards with unlimited repetitions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via a crafted ASCII file that triggers a large amount of...

Amazon Linux AMI : file (ALAS-2014-382)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the File Information fileinfo extension parsed certain Composite Document Format CDF files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash a PHP application using fileinfo via a specially crafted CDF file. Buffer overflow in the mconvert function in...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssl (ALAS-2014-349)

It was found that OpenSSL clients and servers could be forced, via a specially crafted handshake packet, to use weak keying material for communication. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to decrypt and modify traffic between a client and a server. CVE-2014-0224 Note: In order to...

Amazon Linux AMI : squid (ALAS-2014-360)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way Squid processed certain HTTPS requests when the SSL Bump feature was enabled. A remote attacker could send specially crafted requests that could cause Squid to crash. CVE-2014-0128 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package chec...

Amazon Linux AMI : pam (ALAS-2014-354)

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in pamtimestamp.c in the pamtimestamp module for Linux-PAM aka pam 1.1.8 allow local users to create aribitrary files or possibly bypass authentication via a .. dot dot in the 1 PAMRUSER value to the getruser function or 2 PAMTTY value to the checktty...

Amazon Linux AMI : glibc (ALAS-2014-400)

A directory traversal flaw was found in the way glibc loaded locale files. An attacker able to make an application use a specially crafted locale name value for example, specified in an LC environment variable could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of that...

Amazon Linux AMI : automake19 (ALAS-2014-401)

It was found that the distcheck rule in Automake-generated Makefiles made a directory world-writable when preparing source archives. If a malicious, local user could access this directory, they could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running 'make distcheck'. C Tenable Networ...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2014-417)

fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 does not properly restrict clearing MNTNODEV, MNTNOSUID, and MNTNOEXEC and changing MNTATIMEMASK during a remount of a bind mount, which allows local users to gain privileges, interfere with backups and auditing on systems that had atime enabled, ...

Amazon Linux AMI : bash (ALAS-2014-418) (Shellshock)

This ALAS is superceded by ALAS-2014-419. A flaw was found in the way Bash evaluated certain specially crafted environment variables. An attacker could use this flaw to override or bypass environment restrictions to execute shell commands. Certain services and applications allow remote...

Amazon Linux AMI : php54 (ALAS-2014-333)

The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildcards with unlimited repetitions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via a crafted ASCII file that triggers a large amount of...

Amazon Linux AMI : fwsnort (ALAS-2014-409)

Untrusted search path vulnerability in fwsnort before 1.6.4, when not running as root, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse fwsnort.conf in the current working directory. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Amazon Linux AMI : nss (ALAS-2014-385)

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CERTDestroyCertificate function in libnss3.so in Mozilla Network Security Services NSS 3.x, as used in Firefox before 31.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.7, and Thunderbird before 24.7, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger...

Amazon Linux AMI : gnupg2 (ALAS-2014-379)

The douncompress function in g10/compress.c in GnuPG 1.x before 1.4.17 and 2.x before 2.0.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop via malformed compressed packets, as demonstrated by an a3 01 5b ff byte sequence. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Amazon Linux AMI : nss-softokn (ALAS-2014-423)

A flaw was found in the way NSS parsed ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One input from certain RSA signatures. A remote attacker could use this flaw to forge RSA certificates by providing a specially crafted signature to an application using NSS. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive tex...

Amazon Linux AMI : axis (ALAS-2014-412)

It was discovered that Axis incorrectly extracted the host name from an X.509 certificate subject's Common Name CN field. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. CVE-2014-3596 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Amazon Linux AMI : dovecot (ALAS-2014-386)

Dovecot 1.1 before 2.2.13 and dovecot-ee before 2.1.7.7 and 2.2.x before 2.2.12.12 does not properly close old connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption via an incomplete SSL/TLS handshake for an IMAP/POP3 connection. C Tenable Network Security,...

Amazon Linux AMI : libserf (ALAS-2014-397)

The 1 serfsslcertissuer, 2 serfsslcertsubject, and 3 serfsslcertcertificate functions in Serf 0.2.0 through 1.3.x before 1.3.7 does not properly handle a NUL byte in a domain name in the subject's Common Name CN field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof...

Amazon Linux AMI : php54 (ALAS-2014-361)

The cdfunpacksummaryinfo function in cdf.c in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.29 and 5.5.x before 5.5.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service performance degradation by triggering many fileprintf calls. The cdfreadpropertyinfo function in cdf.c in the Fileinfo component i...