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 : kernel (ALAS-2012-55)

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's XFS file system implementation handled links with overly long path names. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges by mounting a specially crafted disk. CVE-2011-4077 ,...

Amazon Linux AMI : nginx (ALAS-2012-74)

Buffer overflow in ngxhttpmp4module.c in the ngxhttpmp4module module in nginx 1.0.7 through 1.0.14 and 1.1.3 through 1.1.18, when the mp4 directive is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory overwrite or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted MP4 file. C Tenable...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssl (ALAS-2011-04)

The MITRE CVE database describes CVE-2011-3207 as : crypto/x509/x509vfy.c in OpenSSL 1.0.x before 1.0.0e does not initialize certain structure members, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass CRL validation by using a nextUpdate value corresponding to a time in the past. C Tenable...

Amazon Linux AMI : postgresql8 (ALAS-2012-94)

A flaw was found in the way the crypt password hashing function from the optional PostgreSQL pgcrypto contrib module performed password transformation when used with the DES algorithm. If the password string to be hashed contained the 0x80 byte value, the remainder of the string was ignored when...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2012-84)

A flaw was found in the way BIND handled zero length resource data records. A malicious owner of a DNS domain could use this flaw to create specially crafted DNS resource records that would cause a recursive resolver or secondary server to crash or, possibly, disclose portions of its memory...

Amazon Linux AMI : ruby (ALAS-2012-139)

Ruby 1.8.7 before patchlevel 371, 1.9.3 before patchlevel 286, and 2.0 before revision r37068 allows context-dependent attackers to bypass safe-level restrictions and modify untainted strings via the nameerrmesgtostr API function, which marks the string as tainted, a different vulnerability than...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.6.0-openjdk (ALAS-2013-163)

An improper permission check issue was discovered in the JMX component in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2013-1486 It was discovered that OpenJDK leaked timing information when decrypting TLS/SSL protocol encrypted...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.6.0-openjdk (ALAS-2012-119)

It was discovered that the Beans component in OpenJDK did not perform permission checks properly. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to use classes from restricted packages, allowing it to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2012-1682 A hardening fix was applied to the...

Important: nss

Issue Overview: It was found that a Certificate Authority CA mis-issued two intermediate certificates to customers. These certificates could be used to launch man-in-the-middle attacks. This update renders those certificates as untrusted. This covers all uses of the certificates, including SSL,...

Medium: mysql51

Issue Overview: This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the MySQL database server. Affected Packages: mysql51 Issue Correction: Run yum update mysql51 or yum update --advisory ALAS-2013-152 to update your system. New Packages: i686: mysql51-5.1.67-1.60.amzn1.i686 ...

OS Identification : Linux Distribution

This plugin attempts to identify the operating system type and version by looking at certain files on the remote operating system e.g., '/etc/redhat-release' on Red Hat. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid25335;...