Amazon Linux 2 : hivex (ALAS-2021-1717)

The version of hivex installed on the remote host is prior to 1.3.10-6.12. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1717 advisory. A flaw was found in the hivex library. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted Windows Registry hive file, whic...

Low: hivex

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in the hivex library. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted Windows Registry hive file, which would cause hivex to recursively call the getchildren function, leading to a stack overflow. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system...

Medium: openssl

Issue Overview: It was found that openssl assumed ASN.1 strings to be NUL terminated. A malicious actor may be able to force an application into calling openssl function with a specially crafted, non-NUL terminated string to deliberately hit this bug, which may result in a crash of the applicatio...

Amazon Linux 2 : httpd (ALAS-2021-1716)

The version of httpd installed on the remote host is prior to 2.4.51-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1716 advisory. A NULL pointer dereference was found in Apache httpd modh2. The highest threat from this flaw is to system integrity...

Important: libsndfile

Issue Overview: A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in libsndfile. This flaw allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted WAV file. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability. CVE-2021-3246 Affected Packages:...

Amazon Linux 2 : libsndfile (ALAS-2021-1713)

The version of libsndfile installed on the remote host is prior to 1.0.25-12. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1713 advisory. A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in libsndfile. This flaw allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted WAV...

Medium: glib2

Issue Overview: An issue was discovered in GNOME GLib before 2.66.7 and 2.67.x before 2.67.4. If gbytearraynewtake was called with a buffer of 4GB or more on a 64-bit platform, the length would be truncated modulo 232, causing unintended length truncation. CVE-2021-27218 Affected Packages: glib2...

Amazon Linux 2 : glib2 (ALAS-2021-1711)

The version of glib2 installed on the remote host is prior to 2.56.1-9. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1711 advisory. An issue was discovered in GNOME GLib before 2.66.7 and 2.67.x before 2.67.4. If gbytearraynewtake was called with a buffer of 4GB o...

Amazon Linux 2 : sssd (ALAS-2021-1715)

The version of sssd installed on the remote host is prior to 1.16.5-10. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1715 advisory. A flaw was found in SSSD, where the sssctl command was vulnerable to shell command injection via the logs- fetch and cache-expire...

Medium: openssl11

Issue Overview: It was found that openssl assumed ASN.1 strings to be NUL terminated. A malicious actor may be able to force an application into calling openssl function with a specially crafted, non-NUL terminated string to deliberately hit this bug, which may result in a crash of the applicatio...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2021-1712)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.248-189.473. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1712 advisory. A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A race condition was discovered in the ext4 subsystem. The highest threat from this...

Amazon Linux 2 : openssl11 (ALAS-2021-1714)

The version of openssl11 installed on the remote host is prior to 1.1.1g-12. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1714 advisory. It was found that openssl assumed ASN.1 strings to be NUL terminated. A malicious actor may be able to force an application int...

Amazon Linux 2 : ca-certificates (ALAS-2021-1710)

The version of ca-certificates installed on the remote host is prior to 2021.2.50-72. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1710 advisory. Update of ca-certificates to version 2021.2.50-72.amzn2.0.1 addresses the expiring IdentTrust DST Root CA X3, which...

Important: ca-certificates

Issue Overview: Update of ca-certificates to version 2021.2.50-72.amzn2.0.1 addresses the expiring IdentTrust DST Root CA X3, which affected some Let's Encrypt TLS certificates. The effect of the expiring certificate would be an inability of OpenSSL to validate impacted certificates issued by Let...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2021-1699)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.243-185.433. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1699 advisory. A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's KVM implementation, where improper handing of the VMIO|VMPFNMAP VMAs in KVM bypasses...

Amazon Linux 2 : ntp (ALAS-2021-1706)

The version of ntp installed on the remote host is prior to 4.2.8p15-3. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1706 advisory. The monlist feature in ntprequest.c in ntpd in NTP before 4.2.7p26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service traffic...

Amazon Linux 2 : exiv2 (ALAS-2021-1701)

The version of exiv2 installed on the remote host is prior to 0.27.0-4. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1701 advisory. A flaw was found in exiv2. A flawed bounds checking in the jp2Image.cpp:doWriteMetadata function leads to a heap-based buffer...

Amazon Linux 2 : thunderbird (ALAS-2021-1709)

The version of thunderbird installed on the remote host is prior to 78.13.0-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1709 advisory. If Thunderbird was configured to use STARTTLS for an IMAP connection, and an attacker injected IMAP server responses...

Amazon Linux 2 : php-pear (ALAS-2021-1708)

The version of php-pear installed on the remote host is prior to 1.10.12-9. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1708 advisory. In ArchiveTar before 1.4.14, symlinks can refer to targets outside of the extracted archive, a different vulnerability than...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2021-1704)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.246-187.474. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1704 advisory. A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting SVM nested virtualization. The flaw occurs when processing t...