Amazon Linux 2 : openssl (ALAS-2019-1188)

A microprocessor side-channel vulnerability was found on SMT e.g, Hyper-Threading architectures. An attacker running a malicious process on the same core of the processor as the victim process can extract certain secret information.CVE-2018-5407 If an application encounters a fatal protocol error...

Amazon Linux 2 : bind (ALAS-2019-1187)

To provide fine-grained controls over the ability to use Dynamic DNS DDNS to update records in a zone, BIND 9 provides a feature called update-policy. Various rules can be configured to limit the types of updates that can be performed by a client, depending on the key used when sending the update...

Amazon Linux 2 : httpd (ALAS-2019-1189)

In Apache HTTP Server with MPM event, worker or prefork, code executing in less-privileged child processes or threads including scripts executed by an in-process scripting interpreter could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the parent process usually root by manipulating the scoreboar...

Amazon Linux 2 : tomcat (ALAS-2019-1192)

When the default servlet in Apache Tomcat returned a redirect to a directory e.g. redirecting to '/foo/' when the user requested '/foo' a specially crafted URL could be used to cause the redirect to be generated to any URI of the attackers choice.CVE-2018-11784 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. Th...

Amazon Linux 2 : mariadb (ALAS-2019-1193)

The crc32big function in crc32.c in zlib 1.2.8 might allow context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving big-endian CRC calculation.CVE-2016-9843 Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL subcomponent: Server: Storage Engines. Supported versions th...

Medium: bind

Issue Overview: To provide fine-grained controls over the ability to use Dynamic DNS DDNS to update records in a zone, BIND 9 provides a feature called update-policy. Various rules can be configured to limit the types of updates that can be performed by a client, depending on the key used when...

Important: freerdp

Issue Overview: FreeRDP prior to version 2.0.0-rc4 contains an Out-Of-Bounds Write of up to 4 bytes in function nscrledecode that results in a memory corruption and possibly even a remote code execution.CVE-2018-8788 FreeRDP prior to version 2.0.0-rc4 contains an Integer Overflow that leads to a...

Amazon Linux 2 : java-1.8.0-openjdk / java-1.7.0-openjdk (ALAS-2019-1177)

Vulnerability in the Java SE component of Oracle Java SE subcomponent: Libraries. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker...

Amazon Linux 2 : spice (ALAS-2019-1184)

Spice, versions 0.5.2 through 0.14.0, are vulnerable to an out-of-bounds read due to an off-by-one error in memslotgetvirt. This may lead to a denial of service, or, in the worst case, code-execution by unauthenticated attackers.CVE-2019-3813 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text...

Amazon Linux 2 : flatpak (ALAS-2019-1183)

Earlier versions of flatpak exposes /proc in the applyextra script sandbox, which allows attackers to modify a host-side executable file.CVE-2019-8308 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2019-1179)

A kernel memory leak was found in the kernelreadfile function in the fs/exec.c file in the Linux kernel. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a memory leak and thus a denial of service DoS.CVE-2019-8980 A flaw was found in mmap in the Linux kernel allowing the process to map a null page. This...

Important: flatpak

Issue Overview: Earlier versions of flatpak exposes /proc in the applyextra script sandbox, which allows attackers to modify a host-side executable file.CVE-2019-8308 Affected Packages: flatpak Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: A kernel memory leak was found in the kernelreadfile function in the fs/exec.c file in the Linux kernel. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a memory leak and thus a denial of service DoS.CVE-2019-8980 A flaw was found in mmap in the Linux kernel allowing the process to map a...

Important: filesystem

Issue Overview: Images built for the Amazon Linux 2.0.20190218 release included system files with incorrect permissions applied. Incorrect permissions were applied to files including: /etc/fstab /etc/localtime /etc/image-id /etc/sysconfig/i18n /etc/sysconfig/clock /etc/sysconfig/keyboard...

Amazon Linux 2 : golang (ALAS-2019-1172)

Go mishandles P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption or possibly conduct ECDH private key recovery attacks.CVE-2019-6486 Note: This CVE is also fixed in golang-1.11.3-2.amzn2.0.2 in the golang1.11 extras repository. C Tenable Network...

Amazon Linux 2 : perl (ALAS-2019-1166)

Perl has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.CVE-2018-18311 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory ALAS-2019-1166. include'compat.inc'; if...

Amazon Linux 2 : bind (ALAS-2019-1170)

Crash from assertion error when debug log level is 10 and log entries meet buffer boundary. This flaw appears to be exploitable only when debug logging is enabled and set to at least a level of 10. As this configuration should be rare in production instances of bind, it is unlikely that most...

Amazon Linux 2 : polkit (ALAS-2019-1171)

A vulnerability was found in polkit. When authentication is performed by a non-root user to perform an administrative task, the authentication is temporarily cached in such a way that a local attacker could impersonate the authorized process, thus gaining access to elevated privileges.CVE-2019-61...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2019-1165)

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor implements its device control API. While creating a device via kvmioctlcreatedevice, the device holds a reference to a VM object, later this reference is transferred to the caller's file descriptor table. If suc...

Amazon Linux 2 : libwmf (ALAS-2019-1174)

The GD Graphics Library aka LibGD 2.2.5 has a double free in the gdImagePtr functions in gdgifout.c, gdjpeg.c, and gdwbmp.c. NOTE: PHP is unaffected.CVE-2019-6978 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux 2 Security...