Amazon Linux AMI : mysql55 (ALAS-2012-93)

sql/password.c in Oracle MySQL 5.1.x before 5.1.63, 5.5.x before 5.5.24, and 5.6.x before 5.6.6, and MariaDB 5.1.x before 5.1.62, 5.2.x before 5.2.12, 5.3.x before 5.3.6, and 5.5.x before 5.5.23, when running in certain environments with certain implementations of the memcmp function, allows remo...

Amazon Linux AMI : 389-ds-base (ALAS-2013-184)

It was found that the 389 Directory Server did not properly restrict access to entries when the 'nsslapd-allow-anonymous-access' configuration setting was set to 'rootdse'. An anonymous user could connect to the LDAP database and, if the search scope is set to BASE, obtain access to information...

Amazon Linux AMI : libpng (ALAS-2012-49)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in libpng. An attacker could create a specially crafted PNG image that, when opened, could cause an application using libpng to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. CVE-2011-3026 C Tenable...

Amazon Linux AMI : openswan (ALAS-2013-192)

A buffer overflow flaw was found in Openswan. If Opportunistic Encryption were enabled 'oe=yes' in '/etc/ipsec.conf' and an RSA key configured, an attacker able to cause a system to perform a DNS lookup for an attacker-controlled domain containing malicious records such as by sending an email tha...

Amazon Linux AMI : pam (ALAS-2013-160)

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the pamenv module parsed users' '/.pamenvironment' files. If an application's PAM configuration contained 'userreadenv=1' this is not the default, a local attacker could use this flaw to crash the application or, possibly, escalate their...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.6.0-openjdk (ALAS-2013-185)

Multiple flaws were discovered in the font layout engine in the 2D component. An untrusted Java application or applet could possibly use these flaws to trigger Java Virtual Machine memory corruption. CVE-2013-1569 , CVE-2013-2383 , CVE-2013-2384 Multiple improper permission check issues were...

Amazon Linux AMI : puppet (ALAS-2013-181)

The 1 template and 2 inlinetemplate functions in the master server in Puppet before 2.6.18, 2.7.x before 2.7.21, and 3.1.x before 3.1.1, and Puppet Enterprise before 1.2.7 and 2.7.x before 2.7.2 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted catalog request. C Tenable...

Amazon Linux AMI : t1lib (ALAS-2012-40)

Two heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the way t1lib processed Adobe Font Metrics AFM files. If a specially crafted font file was opened by an application linked against t1lib, it could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the...

Amazon Linux AMI : postgresql8 (ALAS-2012-129)

It was found that the optional PostgreSQL xml2 contrib module allowed local files and remote URLs to be read and written to with the privileges of the database server when parsing Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations XSLT. An unprivileged database user could use this flaw to read and...

Amazon Linux AMI : puppet (ALAS-2012-53)

Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.14 and 2.7.x before 2.7.11, and Puppet Enterprise PE Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x before 2.0.3, when managing a user login file with the k5login resource type, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on .k5login. The changeuser method in the SUIDManager...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2012-138)

A flaw was found in the way BIND handled certain combinations of resource records. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a recursive resolver, or an authoritative server in certain configurations, to lockup. CVE-2012-5166 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Amazon Linux AMI : openjpeg (ALAS-2012-111)

An input validation flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way OpenJPEG handled the tile number and size in an image tile header. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted image file that, when decoded using an application linked against OpenJPEG, would cause th...

Amazon Linux AMI : dhcp (ALAS-2012-31)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the dhcpd daemon handled DHCP request packets when regular expression matching was used in '/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf'. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash dhcpd. CVE-2011-4539 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2012-45)

The journalunmapbuffer function in fs/jbd2/transaction.c in the Linux kernel before 3.3.1 does not properly handle the Delay and Unwritten buffer head states, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash by leveraging the presence of an ext4 filesystem that was mounted with ...

Amazon Linux AMI : ruby (ALAS-2013-173)

It was discovered that Ruby's REXML library did not properly restrict XML entity expansion. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service by tricking a Ruby application using REXML to read text nodes from specially crafted XML content, which will result in REXML consuming large...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssh (ALAS-2012-99)

A denial of service flaw was found in the OpenSSH GSSAPI authentication implementation. A remote, authenticated user could use this flaw to make the OpenSSH server daemon sshd use an excessive amount of memory, leading to a denial of service. GSSAPI authentication is enabled by default...

Amazon Linux AMI : openswan (ALAS-2011-06)

When an ISAKMP message with an invalid KEYLENGTH attribute is received, the error handling function crashes on a NULL pointer dereference. Openswan automatically restarts the pluto IKE daemon but all ISAKMP state is lost. This vulnerability does NOT allow an attacker access to the system. This ca...

Amazon Linux AMI : nginx (ALAS-2013-189)

http/modules/ngxhttpproxymodule.c in nginx 1.1.4 through 1.2.8 and 1.3.0 through 1.4.0, when proxypass is used with untrusted HTTP servers, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and obtain sensitive information from worker process memory via a crafted proxy response, a simila...

Amazon Linux AMI : socat (ALAS-2012-87)

Heap-based buffer overflow in the xioscanreadline function in xio-readline.c in socat 1.4.0.0 through 1.7.2.0 and 2.0.0-b1 through 2.0.0-b4 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via the READLINE address. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugi...

Amazon Linux AMI : cups (ALAS-2013-170)

It was discovered that CUPS administrative users members of the SystemGroups groups who are permitted to perform CUPS configuration changes via the CUPS web interface could manipulate the CUPS configuration to gain unintended privileges. Such users could read or write arbitrary files with the...