Amazon Linux AMI : cacti (ALAS-2011-23)

The release notes for Cacti 0.8.7h indicate that two security vulnerabilities were fixed, though no corresponding CVE has been issued. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2011-23...

Amazon Linux AMI : perl (ALAS-2013-177)

A heap overflow flaw was found in Perl. If a Perl application allowed user input to control the count argument of the string repeat operator, an attacker could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application...

Amazon Linux AMI : httpd (ALAS-2013-174)

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in the balancerhandler function in the manager interface in modproxybalancer.c in the modproxybalancer module in the Apache HTTP Server 2.2.x before 2.2.24-dev and 2.4.x before 2.4.4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML vi...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.6.0-openjdk (ALAS-2012-119)

It was discovered that the Beans component in OpenJDK did not perform permission checks properly. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to use classes from restricted packages, allowing it to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2012-1682 A hardening fix was applied to the...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.6.0-openjdk (ALAS-2012-43)

It was discovered that Java2D did not properly check graphics rendering objects before passing them to the native renderer. Malicious input, or an untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to crash the Java Virtual Machine JVM, or bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2012-0497 It...

Amazon Linux AMI : ruby (ALAS-2012-139)

Ruby 1.8.7 before patchlevel 371, 1.9.3 before patchlevel 286, and 2.0 before revision r37068 allows context-dependent attackers to bypass safe-level restrictions and modify untainted strings via the nameerrmesgtostr API function, which marks the string as tainted, a different vulnerability than...

Amazon Linux AMI : socat (ALAS-2013-202)

socat 1.2.0.0 before 1.7.2.2 and 2.0.0-b1 before 2.0.0-b6, when used for a listen type address and the fork option is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service file descriptor consumption via multiple request that are refused based on the 1 sourceport, 2 lowport, 3 range, or 4...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.6.0-openjdk (ALAS-2012-136) (ROBOT)

Multiple improper permission check issues were discovered in the Beans, Swing, and JMX components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2012-5086 , CVE-2012-5084 , CVE-2012-5089 Multiple improper permission check issues...

Amazon Linux AMI : perl-YAML-LibYAML (ALAS-2012-69)

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in the error reporting functionality in the YAML::LibYAML aka YAML-LibYAML and perl-YAML-LibYAML module 0.38 for Perl allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service process crash via format string specifiers in a 1 YAML stream to the Load function, 2 YA...

Amazon Linux AMI : php54 (ALAS-2013-212)

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way PHP parsed deeply nested XML documents. If a PHP application used the xmlparseintostruct function to parse untrusted XML content, an attacker able to supply specially crafted XML could use this flaw to crash the application or, possibly, execute arbitra...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2012-55)

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's XFS file system implementation handled links with overly long path names. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges by mounting a specially crafted disk. CVE-2011-4077 ,...

Amazon Linux AMI : nss (ALAS-2012-102)

It was found that a Certificate Authority CA issued a subordinate CA certificate to its customer, that could be used to issue certificates for any name. This update renders the subordinate CA certificate as untrusted. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in thi...

Amazon Linux AMI : dbus (ALAS-2012-128)

It was discovered that the D-Bus library honored environment settings even when running with elevated privileges. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges, by setting specific environment variables before running a setuid or setgid application linked against the...

Amazon Linux AMI : php (ALAS-2012-95)

Integer overflow in the pharparsetarfile function in tar.c in the phar extension in PHP before 5.3.14 and 5.4.x before 5.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted tar file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow...

Medium: mysql51

Issue Overview: This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the MySQL database server. Affected Packages: mysql51 Issue Correction: Run yum update mysql51 or yum update --advisory ALAS-2013-152 to update your system. New Packages: i686: mysql51-5.1.67-1.60.amzn1.i686 ...

Important: nss

Issue Overview: It was found that a Certificate Authority CA mis-issued two intermediate certificates to customers. These certificates could be used to launch man-in-the-middle attacks. This update renders those certificates as untrusted. This covers all uses of the certificates, including SSL,...

OS Identification : Linux Distribution

This plugin attempts to identify the operating system type and version by looking at certain files on the remote operating system e.g., '/etc/redhat-release' on Red Hat. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid25335;...