Amazon Linux 2 : docker (ALASECS-2023-025)

The version of docker installed on the remote host is prior to 20.10.7-5. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2ECS-2023-025 advisory. The OCI Distribution Spec project defines an API protocol to facilitate and standardize the distribution of content. In the OCI...

Amazon Linux 2 : firefox (ALASFIREFOX-2023-017)

The version of firefox installed on the remote host is prior to 115.4.0-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2FIREFOX-2023-017 advisory. A potential use-after-free vulnerability existed in SVG Images if the Refresh Driver was destroyed at an inopportu...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALASKERNEL-5.15-2023-030)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.137-91.144. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2023-030 advisory. 2024-06-06: CVE-2023-52476 was added to this advisory. An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before...

Amazon Linux 2 : containerd (ALASECS-2023-023)

The version of containerd installed on the remote host is prior to 1.4.13-2. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2ECS-2023-023 advisory. A flaw was found in Moby Docker Engine, where containers were started incorrectly with non-empty inheritable Linux process...

Medium: vim

Issue Overview: Vim is an improved version of the good old UNIX editor Vi. Heap-use-after-free in memory allocated in the function gagrowinner in in the file src/alloc.c at line 748, which is freed in the file src/exdocmd.c in the function docmdline at line 1010 and then used again in src/cmdhist...

Medium: re2c

Issue Overview: A stack overflow re2c 2.2 exists due to infinite recursion issues in src/dfa/deadrules.cc. CVE-2022-23901 Affected Packages: re2c Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras...

Medium: ruby

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in ruby, where the date object was found to be vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service ReDoS during the parsing of dates. This flaw allows an attacker to hang a ruby application by providing a specially crafted date string. The highest threat to this...

Important: nerdctl

Issue Overview: The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service server resource consumption because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023. CVE-2023-39325 Text nodes not in the HTML namespace are incorrectly literally rendered,...

Amazon Linux 2 : qemu (ALAS-2023-2336)

The version of qemu installed on the remote host is prior to 3.1.0-8. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2336 advisory. A bug in QEMU could cause a guest I/O operation otherwise addressed to an arbitrary disk offset to be targeted to offset 0 instead...

Medium: amazon-efs-utils

Issue Overview: efs-utils is a set of Utilities for Amazon Elastic File System EFS. A potential race condition issue exists within the Amazon EFS mount helper in efs-utils versions v1.34.3 and below. When using TLS to mount file systems, the mount helper allocates a local port for stunnel to...

Amazon Linux 2 : vim (ALAS-2023-2338)

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2338 advisory. Vim is an improved version of the good old UNIX editor Vi. Heap-use-after-free in memory allocated in the function gagrowinner in in the file src/alloc.c at line 748, which is freed in the file...

Important: microcode_ctl

Issue Overview: An issue was found in redundant REX instruction prefix values affecting third generation Intel Xeon Scalable “Icelake“ processors. The issue may allow a local third-party actor using such instructions to cause a denial of service DOS or achieve privilege escalation. CVE-2023-23583...

Amazon Linux 2 : microcode_ctl (ALAS-2023-2341)

The version of microcodectl installed on the remote host is prior to 2.1-47. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2341 advisory. An issue was found in redundant REX instruction prefix values affecting third generation Intel Xeon Scalable Icelake processors...

Amazon Linux 2023 : ecs-init (ALAS2023-2023-435)

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-435 advisory. The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service server resource consumption because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023...

Amazon Linux 2 : qt5-qtimageformats (ALAS-2023-2337)

The version of qt5-qtimageformats installed on the remote host is prior to 5.9.2-1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2337 advisory. Heap buffer overflow in WebP in Google Chrome prior to 116.0.5845.187 allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of...

Amazon Linux 2 : re2c (ALAS-2023-2344)

The version of re2c installed on the remote host is prior to 3.1-2. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2344 advisory. A stack overflow re2c 2.2 exists due to infinite recursion issues in src/dfa/deadrules.cc. CVE-2022-23901 Tenable has extracted the...

Amazon Linux 2023 : re2c (ALAS2023-2023-438)

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-438 advisory. A stack overflow re2c 2.2 exists due to infinite recursion issues in src/dfa/deadrules.cc. CVE-2022-23901 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security...

Amazon Linux 2023 : microcode_ctl (ALAS2023-2023-436)

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-436 advisory. 2024-03-27: CVE-2023-23908 was added to this advisory. An issue was found in redundant REX instruction prefix values affecting third generation Intel Xeon Scalable Icelake processors. The issue...

Amazon Linux 2023 : amazon-efs-utils (ALAS2023-2023-437)

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-437 advisory. efs-utils is a set of Utilities for Amazon Elastic File System EFS. A potential race condition issue exists within the Amazon EFS mount helper in efs-utils versions v1.34.3 and below. When using TLS to...

Amazon Linux 2 : ctags (ALAS-2023-2343)

The version of ctags installed on the remote host is prior to 5.8-23. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2343 advisory. A flaw was found in Exuberant Ctags in the way it handles the -o option. This option specifies the tag filename. A crafted tag filenam...