Amazon Linux AMI : freetype (ALAS-2011-08)

The MITRE CVE database describes CVE-2011-3256 as : FreeType 2 before 2.4.7, as used in CoreGraphics in Apple iOS before 5, Mandriva Enterprise Server 5, and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service memory corruption via a crafted fon...

Amazon Linux AMI : mysql (ALAS-2012-44)

This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the MySQL database server. Information about these flaws can be found on the Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory page, listed in the References section. CVE-2011-2262 , CVE-2012-0075 , CVE-2012-0087 , CVE-2012-0101 , CVE-2012-0102 , CVE-2012-0112 ,...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssh (ALAS-2013-165)

Due to the way the pamsshagentauth PAM module was built, the glibc's error function was called rather than the intended error function in pamsshagentauth to report errors. As these two functions expect different arguments, it was possible for an attacker to cause an application using...

Amazon Linux AMI : mysql51 (ALAS-2012-92)

A flaw was found in the way MySQL processed HANDLER READ NEXT statements after deleting a record. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to provide such requests, causing mysqld to crash. This issue only caused a temporary denial of service, as mysqld was automatically restarted aft...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.6.0-openjdk (ALAS-2012-43)

It was discovered that Java2D did not properly check graphics rendering objects before passing them to the native renderer. Malicious input, or an untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to crash the Java Virtual Machine JVM, or bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2012-0497 It...

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...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2012-124)

A flaw was found in the way BIND handled resource records with a large RDATA value. 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 exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure...

Amazon Linux AMI : mesa (ALAS-2013-198)

An out-of-bounds access flaw was found in Mesa. If an application using Mesa exposed the Mesa API to untrusted inputs Mozilla Firefox does this, an attacker could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application...

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 : 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 : freetype (ALAS-2012-66)

Multiple flaws were found in the way FreeType handled fonts in various formats. If a specially crafted font file was loaded by an application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin...

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 : tomcat6 (ALAS-2013-196)

The 1 tomcat5, 2 tomcat6, and 3 tomcat7 init scripts, as used in the RPM distribution of Tomcat for JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1.0.2 and 2.0.0, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, allow local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a tomcat5-initd.log, b...

Amazon Linux AMI : libpng (ALAS-2012-68)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libpng processed tEXt chunks in PNG image files. An attacker could create a specially crafted PNG image file that, when opened, could cause an application using libpng to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the...

Amazon Linux AMI : php (ALAS-2012-95)

Integer overflow in the pharparsetarfile function in tar.c in the phar extension in PHP before 5.3.14 and 5.4.x before 5.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted tar file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow...

Amazon Linux AMI : nss (ALAS-2012-102)

It was found that a Certificate Authority CA issued a subordinate CA certificate to its customer, that could be used to issue certificates for any name. This update renders the subordinate CA certificate as untrusted. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in thi...

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 : libxml2 (ALAS-2013-188)

libxml2 2.9.0 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service CPU and memory consumption via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to this entity, aka 'internal entity expansion' with linear complexity. C Tenable...

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 : dbus (ALAS-2012-128)

It was discovered that the D-Bus library honored environment settings even when running with elevated privileges. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges, by setting specific environment variables before running a setuid or setgid application linked against the...