Amazon Linux 2 : xerces-c (ALAS-2018-1124)

A stack exhaustion flaw was found in the way Xerces-C XML parser handled deeply nested DTDs. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash an application using Xerces-C by tricking it into processing specially crafted data.CVE-2016-4463 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text...

Amazon Linux 2 : wget (ALAS-2018-1121)

A cookie injection flaw was found in wget. An attacker can create a malicious website which, when accessed, overrides cookies belonging to arbitrary domains.CVE-2018-0494 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux 2...

Amazon Linux 2 : gnutls (ALAS-2018-1120)

It was found that GnuTLS's implementation of HMAC-SHA-256 was vulnerable to Lucky Thirteen-style attack. A remote attacker could use this flaw to conduct distinguishing attacks and plain text recovery attacks via statistical analysis of timing data using crafted packets.CVE-2018-10844 It was foun...

Amazon Linux AMI : glibc (ALAS-2018-1109)

A buffer overflow has been discovered in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 in the mempcpyavx512novzeroupper function when particular conditions are met. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service or potentially execute code.CVE-2018-11237 elf/dl-load.c in the GNU C...

Amazon Linux AMI : mysql55 (ALAS-2018-1116)

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL subcomponent: Client programs. Supported versions that are affected are 5.5.61 and prior, 5.6.41 and prior, 5.7.23 and prior and 8.0.12 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the...

Amazon Linux AMI : 389-ds-base (ALAS-2018-1106)

It was found that a specially crafted search query could lead to excessive CPU consumption in the dosearch function. An unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to provoke a denial of service.CVE-2018-14648 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugi...

Amazon Linux AMI : curl (ALAS-2018-1112)

curl before version 7.61.1 is vulnerable to a buffer overrun in the NTLM authentication code. The internal function Curlntlmcoremknthash multiplies the length of the password by two SUM to figure out how large temporary storage area to allocate from the heap. The length value is then subsequently...

Amazon Linux AMI : postgresql93 / postgresql94 (ALAS-2018-1117)

A vulnerability was found in libpq, the default PostgreSQL client library where libpq failed to properly reset its internal state between connections. If an affected version of libpq were used with 'host' or 'hostaddr' connection parameters from untrusted input, attackers could bypass client-side...

Amazon Linux AMI : postgresql95 (ALAS-2018-1118)

A vulnerability was found in libpq, the default PostgreSQL client library where libpq failed to properly reset its internal state between connections. If an affected version of libpq were used with 'host' or 'hostaddr' connection parameters from untrusted input, attackers could bypass client-side...

Amazon Linux AMI : postgresql96 (ALAS-2018-1119)

A vulnerability was found in libpq, the default PostgreSQL client library where libpq failed to properly reset its internal state between connections. If an affected version of libpq were used with 'host' or 'hostaddr' connection parameters from untrusted input, attackers could bypass client-side...

Amazon Linux AMI : ruby23 / ruby24 (ALAS-2018-1113)

An issue was discovered in the OpenSSL library in Ruby before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.2, and 2.6.x before 2.6.0-preview3. When two OpenSSL::X509::Name objects are compared using ==, depending on the ordering, non-equal objects may return true. When the first argument is one...

Amazon Linux AMI : python27 (ALAS-2018-1108)

A flaw was found in the way catastrophic backtracking was implemented in python's pop3lib's apop method. An attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service.CVE-2018-1060 A flaw was found in the way catastrophic backtracking was implemented in python's difflib.ISLINEJUNK method. An attacke...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssl (ALAS-2018-1102)

Libgcrypt allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures that can be mitigated through the use of blinding during the signing process in the gcryeccecdsasign function in cipher/ecc-ecdsa.c, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP. To discover an ECDSA key, the attacker...

Amazon Linux AMI : poppler (ALAS-2018-1110)

There is a NULL pointer dereference in the AnnotPath::getCoordsLength function in Annot.h. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.CVE-2018-10768 The FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph function in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc in Poppler allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite...

Medium: fuse

Issue Overview: 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...

Amazon Linux 2 : 389-ds-base (ALAS-2018-1106)

It was found that a specially crafted search query could lead to excessive CPU consumption in the dosearch function. An unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to provoke a denial of service.CVE-2018-14648 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugi...

Amazon Linux 2 : spamassassin (ALAS-2018-1103)

A flaw was found in the way SpamAssassin processes HTML email containing unclosed HTML tags. A carefully crafted mail message could cause SpamAssassin to consume significant resources. If a large number of these messages are sent, a denial of service could occur potentially delaying or preventing...

Amazon Linux 2 : tomcat (ALAS-2018-1105)

An improper handing of overflow in the UTF-8 decoder with supplementary characters can lead to an infinite loop in the decoder causing a Denial of Service.CVE-2018-1336 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux 2...

Amazon Linux 2 : openssl (ALAS-2018-1102)

During key agreement in a TLS handshake using a DHE based ciphersuite a malicious server can send a very large prime value to the client. This will cause the client to spend an unreasonably long period of time generating a key for this prime resulting in a hang until the client has finished. This...

Amazon Linux 2 : mod_http2 (ALAS-2018-1104)

In Apache HTTP Server, by sending continuous, large SETTINGS frames a client can occupy a connection, server thread and CPU time without any connection timeout coming to effect. This affects only HTTP/2 connections. A possible mitigation is to not enable the h2 protocol.CVE-2018-11763 C Tenable...