Amazon Linux AMI : openssh (ALAS-2016-668)

It was discovered that the OpenSSH server did not sanitize data received in requests to enable X11 forwarding. An authenticated client with restricted SSH access could possibly use this flaw to bypass intended restrictions. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks ...

Amazon Linux AMI : php54 (ALAS-2016-670)

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the XSLTProcessor class in PHP. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a PHP application to crash if it performed Extensible Stylesheet Language XSL transformations using untrusted XSLT files and allowed the use of PHP functions to be used as XSLT...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-669)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-670)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-668)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssl (ALAS-2016-661) (DROWN) (SLOTH)

A padding oracle flaw was found in the Secure Sockets Layer version 2.0 SSLv2 protocol. An attacker can potentially use this flaw to decrypt RSA-encrypted cipher text from a connection using a newer SSL/TLS protocol version, allowing them to decrypt such connections. This cross-protocol attack is...

Amazon Linux AMI : 389-ds-base (ALAS-2016-664)

An infinite-loop vulnerability was discovered in the 389 directory server, where the server failed to correctly handle unexpectedly closed client connections. A remote attacker able to connect to the server could use this flaw to make the directory server consume an excessive amount of CPU and st...

Amazon Linux AMI : postgresql94 / postgresql93,postgresql92 (ALAS-2016-662)

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the PostgreSQL handling code for regular expressions. A remote attacker could use a specially crafted regular expression to cause PostgreSQL to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Amazon Linux AMI : privoxy (ALAS-2016-663)

The removechunkedtransfercoding function allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service invalid read and crash via crafted chunk-encoded content. CVE-2016-1982 The clienthost function in parsers.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service invalid read and crash via an empty HTTP...

Amazon Linux AMI : tomcat8 (ALAS-2016-658)

A directory traversal vulnerability in RequestUtil.java was discovered which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended SecurityManager restrictions and list a parent directory via a /.. slash dot dot in a pathname used by a web application in a getResource, getResourceAsStream, or...

Amazon Linux AMI : rpcbind (ALAS-2016-659)

A use-after-free flaw related to the PMAPCALLIT operation and TCP/UDP connections was discovered in rpcbind. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could possibly exploit this flaw to crash the rpcbind service denial of service by performing a series of UDP and TCP calls. C Tenable Network Security,...

Amazon Linux AMI : tomcat6 (ALAS-2016-656)

It was found that the expression language resolver evaluated expressions within a privileged code section. A malicious web application could use this flaw to bypass security manager protections. CVE-2014-7810 It was found that Tomcat would keep connections open after processing requests with a...

Amazon Linux AMI : tomcat7 (ALAS-2016-657)

A directory traversal vulnerability in RequestUtil.java was discovered which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended SecurityManager restrictions and list a parent directory via a /.. slash dot dot in a pathname used by a web application in a getResource, getResourceAsStream, or...

Amazon Linux AMI : glibc (ALAS-2016-660)

It was discovered that the calloc implementation in glibc could return memory areas which contain non-zero bytes. This could result in unexpected application behavior such as hangs or crashes. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted...

Amazon Linux AMI : sos (ALAS-2016-666)

An insecure temporary file use flaw was found in the way sos created certain sosreport files. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to reveal the contents of sosreport files, or in some cases modify arbitrary files and escalate their privileges on the...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2016-665)

A defect in control channel input handling was discovered which can cause named to exit due to an assertion failure in sexpr.c or alist.c when a malformed packet is sent to named's control channel. If control channel input is accepted from the network limited to localhost by default, an...

Amazon Linux AMI : nss-util (ALAS-2016-667)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way NSS parsed certain ASN.1 structures. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted certificate which, when parsed by NSS, could cause it to crash, or execute arbitrary code, using the permissions of the user running an...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-661)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-657)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-664)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...