Amazon Linux AMI : libXext (ALAS-2014-403)

Multiple integer overflows in X.org libXext 1.3.1 and earlier allow X servers to trigger allocation of insufficient memory and a buffer overflow via vectors related to the 1 XcupGetReservedColormapEntries, 2 XcupStoreColors, 3 XdbeGetVisualInfo, 4 XeviGetVisualInfo, 5 XShapeGetRectangles, and 6...

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 : 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 : 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 : cacti (ALAS-2014-381)

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Cacti 0.8.8b allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 drpaction parameter to cdef.php, 2 datainput.php, 3 dataqueries.php, 4 datasources.php, 5 datatemplates.php, 6 graphtemplates.php, 7 graphs.php, 8 host.php, or...

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 : 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 : 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 : glibc (ALAS-2014-355)

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in net/netfilter/ipvs/ipvsctl.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33, when CONFIGIPVS is used, allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging the CAPNETADMIN capability for 1 a getsockopt system call, related to the doipvsgetctl function, or 2 a setsockopt...

Amazon Linux AMI : libtiff (ALAS-2014-365)

Use-after-free vulnerability in the t2preadwritepdfimage function in tools/tiff2pdf.c in libtiff 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or possible execute arbitrary code via a crafted TIFF image. The LZW decompressor in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and earlier...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2014-392)

The mediadeviceenumentities function in drivers/media/media-device.c in the Linux kernel before 3.14.6 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging /dev/media0 read access for a MEDIAIOCENUMENTITIES ioctl...

Amazon Linux AMI : python-jinja2 (ALAS-2014-371)

The default configuration for bccache.FileSystemBytecodeCache in Jinja2 before 2.7.2 does not properly create temporary files, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted .cache file with a name starting with jinja2 in /tmp. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Amazon Linux AMI : cyrus-imapd (ALAS-2011-2)

The cyrus-imapd packages contain a high-performance mail server with IMAP, POP3, NNTP, and Sieve support. A buffer overflow flaw was found in the cyrus-imapd NNTP server, nntpd. A remote user able to use the nntpd service could use this flaw to crash the nntpd child process or, possibly, execute...

Amazon Linux AMI : squid (ALAS-2014-411)

A flaw was found in the way Squid handled malformed HTTP Range headers. A remote attacker able to send HTTP requests to the Squid proxy could use this flaw to crash Squid. CVE-2014-3609 A buffer overflow flaw was found in Squid's DNS lookup module. A remote attacker able to send HTTP requests to...

Amazon Linux AMI : httpd24 (ALAS-2014-389)

A race condition flaw, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, was found in the modstatus httpd module. A remote attacker able to access a status page served by modstatus on a server using a threaded Multi-Processing Module MPM could send a specially crafted request that would cause the httpd chi...

Amazon Linux AMI : libtasn1 (ALAS-2014-359)

It was discovered that the asn1getbitder function of the libtasn1 library incorrectly reported the length of ASN.1-encoded data. Specially crafted ASN.1 input could cause an application using libtasn1 to perform an out-of-bounds access operation, causing the application to crash or, possibly,...

Amazon Linux AMI : mysql55 (ALAS-2014-329)

This update fixes numerous unspecified by upstream vulnerabilities in the MySQL Server component 5.5.35 and earlier and 5.6.15 and earlier. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2014-329...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2014-328)

The ip6routeadd function in net/ipv6/route.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.6 does not properly count the addition of routes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a flood of ICMPv6 Router Advertisement packets. drivers/vhost/net.c in the Linux kernel...