Amazon Linux AMI : httpd24 (ALAS-2013-194)

Cross-site scripting XSS flaws were found in the modproxybalancer module's manager web interface. If a remote attacker could trick a user, who was logged into the manager web interface, into visiting a specially crafted URL, it would lead to arbitrary web script execution in the context of the...

Amazon Linux AMI : sudo (ALAS-2012-110)

A flaw was found in the way the network matching code in sudo handled multiple IP networks listed in user specification configuration directives. A user, who is authorized to run commands with sudo on specific hosts, could use this flaw to bypass intended restrictions and run those commands on...

Amazon Linux AMI : postgresql9 (ALAS-2012-121)

The libxslt support in contrib/xml2 in PostgreSQL 8.3 before 8.3.20, 8.4 before 8.4.13, 9.0 before 9.0.9, and 9.1 before 9.1.5 does not properly restrict access to files and URLs, which allows remote authenticated users to modify data, obtain sensitive information, or trigger outbound traffic to...

Amazon Linux AMI : quagga (ALAS-2012-90)

The bgpcapabilityorf function in bgpd in Quagga 0.99.20.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service assertion failure and daemon exit by leveraging a BGP peering relationship and sending a malformed Outbound Route Filtering ORF capability TLV in an OPEN message. C Tenable...

Amazon Linux AMI : mysql51 (ALAS-2013-186)

This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the MySQL database server. Information about these flaws can be found in the References section. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2013-18...

Amazon Linux AMI : libtasn1 (ALAS-2012-60)

A flaw was found in the way libtasn1 decoded DER data. An attacker could create carefully-crafted DER encoded input such as an X.509 certificate that, when parsed by an application that uses libtasn1 such as applications using GnuTLS, could cause the application to crash. CVE-2012-1569 C Tenable...

Fedora 18 : lighttpd-1.4.32-1.fc18 (2013-15344)

One important denial of service in 1.4.31 fix: CVE-2012-5533. A flaw was found in lighttpd version 1.4.31 that could be exploited by a remote user to cause a denial of service condition in lighttpd. A client could send a malformed Connection header to lighttpd such as 'Connection: TE,,Keep-Alive'...

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 : bind (ALAS-2012-113)

An uninitialized data structure use flaw was found in BIND when DNSSEC validation was enabled. A remote attacker able to send a large number of queries to a DNSSEC validating BIND resolver could use this flaw to cause it to exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure. CVE-2012-3817 C Tenable...

Amazon Linux AMI : net-snmp (ALAS-2012-97)

An array index error, leading to an out-of-bounds buffer read flaw, was found in the way the net-snmp agent looked up entries in the extension table. A remote attacker with read privileges to a Management Information Base MIB subtree handled by the 'extend' directive in '/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf' cou...

Fedora 19 : lighttpd-1.4.32-1.fc19 (2013-15345)

One important denial of service in 1.4.31 fix: CVE-2012-5533. A flaw was found in lighttpd version 1.4.31 that could be exploited by a remote user to cause a denial of service condition in lighttpd. A client could send a malformed Connection header to lighttpd such as 'Connection: TE,,Keep-Alive'...

Amazon Linux AMI : libxml2 (ALAS-2012-143)

A heap-based buffer underflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 decoded certain entities. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when opened in an application linked against libxml2, would cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the...

Amazon Linux AMI : nvidia (ALAS-2012-67)

The NVIDIA UNIX driver before 295.40 allows local users to access arbitrary memory locations by leveraging GPU device-node read/write privileges. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory...

Amazon Linux AMI : mysql51 (ALAS-2012-141)

This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the MySQL database server. Information about these flaws can be found on the Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory pages, listed below. - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2012-366314.htmlAppendixMSQL April 2012 -...

Amazon Linux AMI : rubygems (ALAS-2012-79)

RubyGems before 1.8.23 can redirect HTTPS connections to HTTP, which makes it easier for remote attackers to observe or modify a gem during installation via a man-in-the-middle attack. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amaz...

Amazon Linux AMI : mysql55 (ALAS-2013-187)

This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the MySQL database server. Information about these flaws can be found in the References section. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2013-18...

Amazon Linux AMI : dhcp (ALAS-2012-115)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the dhcpd daemon handled zero-length client identifiers. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially crafted request to dhcpd, possibly causing it to enter an infinite loop and consume an excessive amount of CPU time. CVE-2012-3571 Two...

Amazon Linux AMI : libxslt (ALAS-2012-123)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxslt applied templates to nodes selected by certain namespaces. An attacker could use this flaw to create a malicious XSL file that, when used by an application linked against libxslt to perform an XSL transformation, could cause the...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2012-58)

The ExecShield feature does not properly handle use of many shared libraries by a 32-bit executable file, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism by leveraging a predictable base address for one of these libraries. C Tenable Network Security,...

Amazon Linux AMI : freetype (ALAS-2013-150)

A flaw was found in the way the FreeType font rendering engine processed certain Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format BDF fonts. If a user loaded a specially crafted font file with an application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code wit...