Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2018-939) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

An updated kernel release for Amazon Linux has been made available which prevents speculative execution of indirect branches within the kernel. This release incorporates latest stable open source Linux security improvements to address CVE-2017-5715 within the kernel and builds upon previously...

Amazon Linux 2 : qemu-kvm (ALAS-2018-942) (Spectre)

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance optimization. There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be exploited. Variant...

Amazon Linux 2 : dhcp (ALAS-2018-963)

Omapi code doesn't free socket descriptors when empty message is received allowing denial-of-service It was found that the DHCP daemon did not properly clean up closed OMAPI connections in certain cases. A remote attacker able to connect to the OMAPI port could use this flaw to exhaust file...

Amazon Linux 2 : nautilus (ALAS-2018-960)

Insufficient validation of trust of .desktop files with execute permission An untrusted .desktop file with executable permission set could choose its displayed name and icon, and execute commands without warning when opened by the user. An attacker could use this flaw to trick a user into opening...

Amazon Linux 2 : linux-firmware (ALAS-2018-962) (Spectre)

Speculative execution branch target injection An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance optimization. There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2018-971)

Out-of-bounds write via userland offsets in ebtentry struct in netfilter/ebtables.c : A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of 32-bit syscall interface for bridging. This allowed a privileged user to arbitrarily write to a limited range of kernel memory. CVE-2018-1068 C Tenable...

Amazon Linux 2 : 389-ds-base (ALAS-2018-980)

Authentication bypass due to lack of size check in slapictmemcmp function in chmalloc.c : It was found that 389-ds-base did not always handle internal hash comparison operations correctly during the authentication process. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to bypa...

Amazon Linux 2 : curl (ALAS-2018-951)

HTTP authentication leak in redirects libcurl might accidentally leak authentication data to third parties. When asked to send custom headers in its HTTP requests, libcurl will send that set of headers first to the host in the initial URL but also, if asked to follow redirects and a 30X HTTP...

Amazon Linux 2 : systemd (ALAS-2018-961)

Access to automounted volumes can lock up A race condition was found in systemd. This could result in automount requests not being serviced and processes using them could hang, causing denial of service.CVE-2018-1049 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Amazon Linux 2 : bind (ALAS-2018-954)

Improper fetch cleanup sequencing in the resolver can cause named to crash A use-after-free flaw leading to denial of service was found in the way BIND internally handled cleanup operations on upstream recursion fetch contexts. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to make named, acti...

Amazon Linux 2 : microcode_ctl (ALAS-2018-953) (Spectre)

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance optimization. There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be exploited. Variant...

Amazon Linux AMI : postgresql93 / postgresql94,postgresql95,postgresql96 (ALAS-2018-990)

Uncontrolled search path element in pgdump and other client applications A flaw was found in the way Postgresql allowed a user to modify the behavior of a query for other users. An attacker with a user account could use this flaw to execute code with the permissions of superuser in the database...

Amazon Linux AMI : python-paramiko (ALAS-2018-989)

Authentication bypass in transport.py transport.py in the SSH server implementation of Paramiko before 1.17.6, 1.18.x before 1.18.5, 2.0.x before 2.0.8, 2.1.x before 2.1.5, 2.2.x before 2.2.3, 2.3.x before 2.3.2, and 2.4.x before 2.4.1 does not properly check whether authentication is completed...

Amazon Linux AMI : 389-ds-base (ALAS-2018-980)

Authentication bypass due to lack of size check in slapictmemcmp function in chmalloc.c : It was found that 389-ds-base did not always handle internal hash comparison operations correctly during the authentication process. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to bypa...

Amazon Linux AMI : libvorbis (ALAS-2018-981)

Vorbis audio processing out of bounds write : An out of bounds write flaw was found in the processing of vorbis audio data. A maliciously crafted file or audio stream could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2018-5146 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Amazon Linux AMI : mailman (ALAS-2018-985)

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in web UI A cross-site scripting XSS flaw was found in mailman. An attacker, able to trick the user into visiting a specific URL, can execute arbitrary web scripts on the user's side and force the victim to perform unintended actions. CVE-2018-5950 CSRF...

Amazon Linux AMI : ruby20 / ruby22,ruby23,ruby24 (ALAS-2018-983)

Path traversal when writing to a symlinked basedir outside of the root RubyGems version Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier, Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier, Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier, Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier, prior to trunk revision 62422 contains a Directory Traversal...

Amazon Linux AMI : nvidia (ALAS-2018-991)

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer nvlddmkm.sys handler for DxgkDdiEscape where a NULL pointer dereference may lead to denial of service or possible escalation of privileges. CVE-2018-6247 NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability ...

Amazon Linux AMI : dhcp (ALAS-2018-984)

Buffer overflow in dhclient possibly allowing code execution triggered by malicious server An out-of-bound memory access flaw was found in the way dhclient processed a DHCP response packet. A malicious DHCP server could potentially use this flaw to crash dhclient processes running on DHCP client...

Low: zsh

Issue Overview: NULL dereference in cd in sh compatibility mode under given circumstances In builtin.c in zsh before 5.4, when sh compatibility mode is used, there is a NULL pointer dereference during processing of the cd command with no argument if HOME is not set. CVE-2017-18205 Null-pointer...