Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2012-146)

A flaw was found in the DNS64 implementation in BIND. If a remote attacker sent a specially crafted query to a named server, named could exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure. Note that DNS64 support is not enabled by default. CVE-2012-5688 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

Amazon Linux AMI : libtiff (ALAS-2012-65)

Two integer overflow flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in the way libtiff attempted to allocate space for a tile in a TIFF image file. An attacker could use these flaws to create a specially crafted TIFF file that, when opened, would cause an application linked against...

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-2013-176)

A denial of service flaw was found in the libdns library. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially crafted DNS query to named that, when processed, would cause named to use an excessive amount of memory, or possibly crash. CVE-2013-2266 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel / nvidia (ALAS-2013-154)

The xenfailsafecallback function in Xen for the Linux kernel 2.6.23 and other versions, when running a 32-bit PVOPS guest, allows local users to cause a denial of service guest crash by triggering an iret fault, leading to use of an incorrect stack pointer and stack corruption. C Tenable Network...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2012-83)

It was found that the datalen parameter of the sockallocsendpskb function in the Linux kernel's networking implementation was not validated before use. A local user with access to a TUN/TAP virtual interface could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges. Note...

Amazon Linux AMI : freetype (ALAS-2011-20)

Multiple input validation flaws were found in the way FreeType processed CID-keyed fonts. If a specially crafted font file was loaded by an application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running...

Amazon Linux AMI : dhcp (ALAS-2013-157)

A flaw was found in the way the dhcpd daemon handled the expiration time of IPv6 leases. If dhcpd's configuration was changed to reduce the default IPv6 lease time, lease renewal requests for previously assigned leases could cause dhcpd to crash. CVE-2012-3955 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Amazon Linux AMI : krb5 (ALAS-2011-15)

Multiple NULL pointer dereference and assertion failure flaws were found in the MIT Kerberos KDC when it was configured to use an LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol or Berkeley Database Berkeley DB back end. A remote attacker could use these flaws to crash the KDC. CVE-2011-1527 ,...

Amazon Linux AMI : openldap (ALAS-2012-117)

It was found that the OpenLDAP server daemon ignored olcTLSCipherSuite settings. This resulted in the default cipher suite always being used, which could lead to weaker than expected ciphers being accepted during Transport Layer Security TLS negotiation with OpenLDAP clients. CVE-2012-2668 C...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.6.0-openjdk (ALAS-2013-167)

An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the 2D component handled certain sample model instances. A specially crafted sample model instance could cause Java Virtual Machine memory corruption and, possibly, lead to arbitrary code execution with virtual machine privileges. CVE-2013-0809 It was...

Amazon Linux AMI : php (ALAS-2012-37)

It was found that the hashing routine used by PHP arrays was susceptible to predictable hash collisions. If an HTTP POST request to a PHP application contained many parameters whose names map to the same hash value, a large amount of CPU time would be consumed. This flaw has been mitigated by...

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 : openssl (ALAS-2013-171)

It was discovered that OpenSSL leaked timing information when decrypting TLS/SSL and DTLS protocol encrypted records when CBC-mode cipher suites were used. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to retrieve plain text from the encrypted packets by using a TLS/SSL or DTLS server as a paddi...

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 : kernel / nvidia (ALAS-2013-148)

A malicious Network File System version 4 NFSv4 server could return a crafted reply to a GETACL request, causing a denial of service on the client. CVE-2012-2375 , Moderate A divide-by-zero flaw was found in the TCP Illinois congestion control algorithm implementation in the Linux kernel. If the...

Amazon Linux AMI : puppet (ALAS-2012-75)

Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.15 and 2.7.x before 2.7.13, and Puppet Enterprise PE Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows remote authenticated users with an authorized SSL key and certain permissions on the puppet master to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack in conjunction...

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 ...

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,...

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;...