Amazon Linux AMI : dhcp (ALAS-2013-157)

A flaw was found in the way the dhcpd daemon handled the expiration time of IPv6 leases. If dhcpd's configuration was changed to reduce the default IPv6 lease time, lease renewal requests for previously assigned leases could cause dhcpd to crash. CVE-2012-3955 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Amazon Linux AMI : libxml2 (ALAS-2012-36)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 decoded entity references with long names. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when opened in an application linked against libxml2, would cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrar...

Amazon Linux AMI : libtiff (ALAS-2012-106)

libtiff did not properly convert between signed and unsigned integer values, leading to a buffer overflow. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted TIFF file that, when opened, would cause an application linked against libtiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code...

Amazon Linux AMI : php (ALAS-2012-116)

Unspecified vulnerability in the phpstreamscandir function in the stream implementation in PHP before 5.3.15 and 5.4.x before 5.4.5 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors, related to an 'overflow.' C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2012-142)

A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel's memory management subsystem in the way quota handling for huge pages was performed. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service or, potentially, escalate their privileges. CVE-2012-2133 , Moderate A use-after-fr...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.7.0-openjdk (ALAS-2013-162)

Multiple improper permission check issues were discovered in the JMX and Libraries components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2013-1486 , CVE-2013-1484 An improper permission check issue was discovered in the...

Amazon Linux AMI : glibc (ALAS-2012-120)

Multiple integer overflow flaws, leading to stack-based buffer overflows, were found in glibc's functions for converting a string to a numeric representation strtod, strtof, and strtold. If an application used such a function on attacker controlled input, it could cause the application to crash o...

Amazon Linux AMI : php (ALAS-2012-77)

A flaw was found in the way the php-cgi executable processed command line arguments when running in CGI mode. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to a PHP script that would result in the query string being parsed by php-cgi as command line options and arguments. This could le...

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 : 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 : libpng (ALAS-2012-68)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libpng processed tEXt 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 the...

Amazon Linux AMI : libxml2 (ALAS-2013-188)

libxml2 2.9.0 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service CPU and memory consumption via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to this entity, aka 'internal entity expansion' with linear complexity. C Tenable...

Amazon Linux AMI : freetype (ALAS-2012-66)

Multiple flaws were found in the way FreeType handled fonts in various formats. If a specially crafted font file was loaded by an application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin...

Amazon Linux AMI : postgresql8 (ALAS-2012-82)

The pgdump utility inserted object names literally into comments in the SQL script it produces. An unprivileged database user could create an object whose name includes a newline followed by a SQL command. This SQL command might then be executed by a privileged user during later restore of the...

Amazon Linux AMI : iproute (ALAS-2012-64)

iproute2 before 3.3.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file used by 1 configure or 2 examples/dhcp-client-script. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Securit...

Amazon Linux AMI : tomcat6 (ALAS-2013-196)

The 1 tomcat5, 2 tomcat6, and 3 tomcat7 init scripts, as used in the RPM distribution of Tomcat for JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1.0.2 and 2.0.0, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, allow local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a tomcat5-initd.log, b...

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 : wireshark (ALAS-2012-71)

Several flaws were found in Wireshark. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malicious dump file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. Several denial of service flaws were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could crash or stop...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2013-158)

A flaw was found in the DNS64 implementation in BIND when using Response Policy Zones RPZ. If a remote attacker sent a specially crafted query to a named server that is using RPZ rewrite rules, named could exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure. Note that DNS64 support is not enabled by...

Amazon Linux AMI : quagga (ALAS-2012-70)

Buffer overflow in the OSPFv2 implementation in ospfd in Quagga before 0.99.20.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon crash via a Link State Update aka LS Update packet containing a network-LSA link-state advertisement for which the data-structure length is smaller than the...