Amazon Linux AMI : lighttpd (ALAS-2013-179)

The httprequestsplitvalue function in request.c in lighttpd before 1.4.32 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop via a request with a header containing an empty token, as demonstrated using the 'Connection: TE,,Keep-Alive' header. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Amazon Linux AMI : php54 (ALAS-2013-212)

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way PHP parsed deeply nested XML documents. If a PHP application used the xmlparseintostruct function to parse untrusted XML content, an attacker able to supply specially crafted XML could use this flaw to crash the application or, possibly, execute arbitra...

Amazon Linux AMI : nss (ALAS-2011-21)

It was found that the Malaysia-based Digicert Sdn. Bhd. subordinate Certificate Authority CA issued HTTPS certificates with weak keys. This update renders any HTTPS certificates signed by that CA as untrusted. This covers all uses of the certificates, including SSL, S/MIME, and code signing. Note...

Amazon Linux AMI : quagga (ALAS-2012-70)

Buffer overflow in the OSPFv2 implementation in ospfd in Quagga before 0.99.20.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon crash via a Link State Update aka LS Update packet containing a network-LSA link-state advertisement for which the data-structure length is smaller than the...

Amazon Linux AMI : iproute (ALAS-2012-64)

iproute2 before 3.3.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file used by 1 configure or 2 examples/dhcp-client-script. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Securit...

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 ,...

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;...