Amazon Linux AMI : xorg-x11-server (ALAS-2012-104)

A flaw was found in the way the X.Org server handled lock files. A local user with access to the system console could use this flaw to determine the existence of a file in a directory not accessible to the user, via a symbolic link attack. CVE-2011-4028 A race condition was found in the way the...

Amazon Linux AMI : httpd (ALAS-2012-46)

It was discovered that the fix for CVE-2011-3368 did not completely address the problem. An attacker could bypass the fix and make a reverse proxy connect to an arbitrary server not directly accessible to the attacker by sending an HTTP version 0.9 request, or by using a specially crafted URI...

Amazon Linux AMI : ghostscript (ALAS-2012-42)

An integer overflow flaw was found in Ghostscript's TrueType bytecode interpreter. An attacker could create a specially crafted PostScript or PDF file that, when interpreted, could cause Ghostscript to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2009-3743 It was found that Ghostscript alwa...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.7.0-openjdk (ALAS-2013-151)

Two improper permission check issues were discovered in the reflection API in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

Amazon Linux AMI : php (ALAS-2011-07)

The MITRE CVE database describes these CVEs as : Revert isa behavior to php = 5.3.6 and add a new new option allowstring for the new behavior accept string and raise autoload if needed Use-after-free vulnerability in the substrreplace function in PHP 5.3.6 and earlier allows context-dependent...

Amazon Linux AMI : cups (ALAS-2013-170)

It was discovered that CUPS administrative users members of the SystemGroups groups who are permitted to perform CUPS configuration changes via the CUPS web interface could manipulate the CUPS configuration to gain unintended privileges. Such users could read or write arbitrary files with the...

Amazon Linux AMI : libpng (ALAS-2012-56)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libpng processed compressed chunks in PNG image files. An attacker could create a specially crafted PNG image file that, when opened, could cause an application using libpng to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of...

Amazon Linux AMI : puppet (ALAS-2013-181)

The 1 template and 2 inlinetemplate functions in the master server in Puppet before 2.6.18, 2.7.x before 2.7.21, and 3.1.x before 3.1.1, and Puppet Enterprise before 1.2.7 and 2.7.x before 2.7.2 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted catalog request. C Tenable...

Amazon Linux AMI : nginx (ALAS-2013-189)

http/modules/ngxhttpproxymodule.c in nginx 1.1.4 through 1.2.8 and 1.3.0 through 1.4.0, when proxypass is used with untrusted HTTP servers, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and obtain sensitive information from worker process memory via a crafted proxy response, a simila...

Amazon Linux AMI : pam (ALAS-2013-160)

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the pamenv module parsed users' '/.pamenvironment' files. If an application's PAM configuration contained 'userreadenv=1' this is not the default, a local attacker could use this flaw to crash the application or, possibly, escalate their...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2012-138)

A flaw was found in the way BIND handled certain combinations of resource records. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a recursive resolver, or an authoritative server in certain configurations, to lockup. CVE-2012-5166 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Amazon Linux AMI : openjpeg (ALAS-2012-111)

An input validation flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way OpenJPEG handled the tile number and size in an image tile header. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted image file that, when decoded using an application linked against OpenJPEG, would cause th...

Amazon Linux AMI : 389-ds-base (ALAS-2013-184)

It was found that the 389 Directory Server did not properly restrict access to entries when the 'nsslapd-allow-anonymous-access' configuration setting was set to 'rootdse'. An anonymous user could connect to the LDAP database and, if the search scope is set to BASE, obtain access to information...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2012-45)

The journalunmapbuffer function in fs/jbd2/transaction.c in the Linux kernel before 3.3.1 does not properly handle the Delay and Unwritten buffer head states, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash by leveraging the presence of an ext4 filesystem that was mounted with ...

Amazon Linux AMI : krb5 (ALAS-2011-28)

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the MIT Kerberos KDC processed certain TGS Ticket-granting Server requests. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash the KDC via a specially crafted TGS request. CVE-2011-1530 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptiv...

Amazon Linux AMI : libxml2 (ALAS-2012-52)

It was found that the hashing routine used by libxml2 arrays was susceptible to predictable hash collisions. Sending a specially crafted message to an XML service could result in longer processing time, which could lead to a denial of service. To mitigate this issue, randomization has been added ...

Amazon Linux AMI : mysql55 (ALAS-2012-93)

sql/password.c in Oracle MySQL 5.1.x before 5.1.63, 5.5.x before 5.5.24, and 5.6.x before 5.6.6, and MariaDB 5.1.x before 5.1.62, 5.2.x before 5.2.12, 5.3.x before 5.3.6, and 5.5.x before 5.5.23, when running in certain environments with certain implementations of the memcmp function, allows remo...

Amazon Linux AMI : php54 (ALAS-2013-206)

Heap-based buffer overflow in the phpquotprintencode function in ext/standard/quotprint.c in PHP before 5.3.26 and 5.4.x before 5.4.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted argument to the quotedprintableenco...

Amazon Linux AMI : puppet (ALAS-2012-75)

Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.15 and 2.7.x before 2.7.13, and Puppet Enterprise PE Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows remote authenticated users with an authorized SSL key and certain permissions on the puppet master to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack in conjunction...

Amazon Linux AMI : libtiff (ALAS-2012-147)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libtiff processed certain TIFF images using the Pixar Log Format encoding. An attacker could create a specially crafted TIFF file that, when opened, could cause an application using libtiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with t...