Amazon Linux AMI : readline (ALAS-2014-357)

The rltropen function in util.c in GNU readline before 6.3 patch 3 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /var/tmp/rltrace.PID file. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linu...

Amazon Linux AMI : nss (ALAS-2014-424)

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 : httpd (ALAS-2011-1)

The Apache HTTP Server is a popular web server. A flaw was found in the way the Apache HTTP Server handled Range HTTP headers. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause httpd to use an excessive amount of memory and CPU time via HTTP requests with a specially crafted Range header...

Amazon Linux AMI : libxml2 (ALAS-2014-341)

It was discovered that libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML files, incorrectly performs entity substituton in the doctype prolog, even if the application using libxml2 disabled any entity substitution. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that...

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 : 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 : 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 : jbigkit (ALAS-2014-337)

Stack-based buffer overflow in the jbgdecin function in libjbig/jbig.c in JBIG-KIT before 2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted image file. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package chec...

Amazon Linux AMI : glibc (ALAS-2014-399)

An off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in glibc's internal gconvtranslitfind function. An attacker able to make an application call the iconvopen function with a specially crafted argument could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of that...

Amazon Linux AMI : mod24_security (ALAS-2014-334)

apache2/modsecurity.c in ModSecurity before 2.7.6 allows remote attackers to bypass rules by using chunked transfer coding with a capitalized Chunked value in the Transfer-Encoding HTTP header. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted...

Amazon Linux AMI : httpd (ALAS-2014-331)

It was found that the moddav module did not correctly strip leading white space from certain elements in a parsed XML. In certain httpd configurations that use the moddav module for example when using the moddavsvn module, a remote attacker could send a specially crafted DAV request that would...

Amazon Linux AMI : libXfont (ALAS-2014-404)

Multiple integer overflows in the 1 fsgetreply, 2 fsallocglyphs, and 3 fsreadextentinfo functions in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.8 and 1.4.9x before 1.4.99.901 allow remote font servers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted xfs reply, which triggers a buffer overflow. Multiple buffer overflows in...

Amazon Linux AMI : gnutls (ALAS-2014-352)

A flaw was found in the way GnuTLS parsed session IDs from ServerHello messages of the TLS/SSL handshake. A malicious server could use this flaw to send an excessively long session ID value, which would trigger a buffer overflow in a connecting TLS/SSL client application using GnuTLS, causing the...

Amazon Linux AMI : nrpe (ALAS-2014-364)

DISPUTED Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in nrpe.c in Nagios Remote Plugin Executor NRPE 2.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a newline character in the -a option to libexec/checknrpe. NOTE: this issue is disputed by multiple parties. It has been reported...

Amazon Linux AMI : libmicrohttpd (ALAS-2014-353)

Stack-based buffer overflow in the MHDdigestauthcheck function in libmicrohttpd before 0.9.32, when MHDOPTIONCONNECTIONMEMORYLIMIT is set to a large value, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long URI in an authentication header. The...

Amazon Linux AMI : php55 (ALAS-2014-332)

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 : php54 (ALAS-2014-367)

acinclude.m4, as used in the configure script in PHP 5.5.13 and earlier, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/phpglibccheck file. A denial of service flaw was found in the way the File Information fileinfo extension parsed certain Composite Document...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssl (ALAS-2014-391)

A flaw was discovered in the way OpenSSL handled DTLS packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a DTLS server or client using OpenSSL to crash or use excessive amounts of memory. Multiple buffer overflows in crypto/srp/srplib.c in the SRP implementation in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1...

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 : 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, ...