Amazon Linux AMI : php56 (ALAS-2015-585) (BACKRONYM)

PHP process crashes when processing an invalid file with the 'phar' extension. CVE-2015-5589 As discussed upstream, mysqlnd is vulnerable to the attack described in https://www.duosecurity.com/blog/backronym-mysql-vulnerability. CVE-2015-3152 PHP versions before 5.5.27 and 5.4.43 contain buffer...

Amazon Linux AMI : php54 (ALAS-2015-583) (BACKRONYM)

PHP process crashes when processing an invalid file with the 'phar' extension. CVE-2015-5589 As discussed upstream, mysqlnd is vulnerable to the attack described in https://www.duosecurity.com/blog/backronym-mysql-vulnerability. CVE-2015-3152 PHP versions before 5.5.27 and 5.4.43 contain buffer...

Amazon Linux AMI : php55 (ALAS-2015-584) (BACKRONYM)

PHP process crashes when processing an invalid file with the 'phar' extension. CVE-2015-5589 As discussed upstream, mysqlnd is vulnerable to the attack described in https://www.duosecurity.com/blog/backronym-mysql-vulnerability. CVE-2015-3152 PHP versions before 5.5.27 and 5.4.43 contain buffer...

Amazon Linux AMI : tigervnc (ALAS-2015-576)

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the way vncviewer rendered certain screen images from a vnc server. If a user could be tricked into connecting to a malicious vnc server, it may cause the vncviewer to crash, or could possibly execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user runnin...

Amazon Linux AMI : gnutls (ALAS-2015-575)

It was found that GnuTLS did not check activation and expiration dates of CA certificates. This could cause an application using GnuTLS to incorrectly accept a certificate as valid when its issuing CA is already expired. CVE-2014-8155 It was found that GnuTLS did not verify whether a hashing...

Amazon Linux AMI : libgcrypt (ALAS-2015-577)

Fix a side-channel attack on data-dependent timing variations in modular exponentiation, which can potentially lead to an information leak. CVE-2015-0837 Fix a side-channel attack which can potentially lead to an information leak. CVE-2014-3591 Libgcrypt before 1.5.4, as used in GnuPG and other...

Amazon Linux AMI : gnupg2 (ALAS-2015-574)

It was reported that gnupg2 keyring DB code did not reject packets which don't belong into a keyring, which may lead to invalid read of sizeof int. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2015-573)

As reported upstream, an error in the handling of TKEY queries can be exploited by an attacker for use as a denial-of-service vector, as a constructed packet can use the defect to trigger a REQUIRE assertion failure, causing BIND to exit. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Amazon Linux AMI : usermode / libuser (ALAS-2015-572)

It was found that libuser, as used in the chfn userhelper functionality, does not properly filter out newline characters, which allows an authenticated local attacker to corrupt the /etc/passwd file and cause denial-of-service against the system. CVE-2015-3245 A flaw was found in the way the...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2015-566)

A flaw was found in the way BIND performed DNSSEC validation. An attacker able to make BIND functioning as a DNS resolver with DNSSEC validation enabled resolve a name in an attacker-controlled domain could cause named to exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure. C Tenable Network Security, In...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2015-565)

It was found that the Linux kernel's implementation of vectored pipe read and write functionality did not take into account the I/O vectors that were already processed when retrying after a failed atomic access operation, potentially resulting in memory corruption due to an I/O vector array...

Amazon Linux AMI : 389-ds-base (ALAS-2015-567)

It was reported that nsSSL3Ciphers preference is not enforced server side, this allows for a potential downgrade attack to take place. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2015-567...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssh (ALAS-2015-568)

It was reported that when forwarding X11 connections with ForwardX11Trusted=no, connections made after ForwardX11Timeout expired could be permitted and no longer subject to XSECURITY restrictions because of an ineffective timeout check in ssh1 coupled with 'fail open' behavior in the X11 server...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.7.0-openjdk (ALAS-2015-570) (Bar Mitzvah) (Logjam)

Multiple flaws were discovered in the 2D, CORBA, JMX, Libraries and RMI components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2015-4760 , CVE-2015-2628 , CVE-2015-4731 , CVE-2015-2590 , CVE-2015-4732 , CVE-2015-4733 A flaw wa...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.8.0-openjdk (ALAS-2015-571) (Bar Mitzvah) (Logjam)

Multiple flaws were discovered in the 2D, CORBA, JMX, Libraries and RMI components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2015-4760 , CVE-2015-2628 , CVE-2015-4731 , CVE-2015-2590 , CVE-2015-4732 , CVE-2015-4733 A flaw wa...

Amazon Linux AMI : nss / nss-util (ALAS-2015-569) (Logjam)

A flaw was found in the way the TLS protocol composes the Diffie-Hellman DH key exchange. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to force the use of weak 512 bit export-grade keys during the key exchange, allowing them do decrypt all traffic. CVE-2015-4000 Please note that this update...

Medium: 389-ds-base

Issue Overview: It was reported https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/48194 that nsSSL3Ciphers preference is not enforced server side, this allows for a potential downgrade attack to take place. Affected Packages: 389-ds-base Issue Correction: Run yum update 389-ds-base or yum update --advisory...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssl (ALAS-2015-564)

During certificate verfification, OpenSSL starting from version 1.0.1n and 1.0.2b will attempt to find an alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain fails. An error in the implementation of this logic can mean that an attacker could cause certain checks on untrusted...

Critical: openssl

Issue Overview: During certificate verfification, OpenSSL starting from version 1.0.1n and 1.0.2b will attempt to find an alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain fails. An error in the implementation of this logic can mean that an attacker could cause certain chec...

Amazon Linux AMI : php55 (ALAS-2015-562)

Upstream reports that several bugs have been fixed as well as several security issues into some bundled libraries CVE-2015-3414 , CVE-2015-3415 , CVE-2015-3416 , CVE-2015-2325 and CVE-2015-2326. All PHP 5.5 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. Please see the upstream release notes for...