Amazon Linux AMI : fwsnort (ALAS-2014-409)

Untrusted search path vulnerability in fwsnort before 1.6.4, when not running as root, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse fwsnort.conf in the current working directory. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Amazon Linux AMI : nss-softokn (ALAS-2014-423)

A flaw was found in the way NSS parsed ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One input from certain RSA signatures. A remote attacker could use this flaw to forge RSA certificates by providing a specially crafted signature to an application using NSS. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive tex...

Amazon Linux AMI : nss (ALAS-2014-385)

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CERTDestroyCertificate function in libnss3.so in Mozilla Network Security Services NSS 3.x, as used in Firefox before 31.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.7, and Thunderbird before 24.7, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger...

Amazon Linux AMI : glibc (ALAS-2014-400)

A directory traversal flaw was found in the way glibc loaded locale files. An attacker able to make an application use a specially crafted locale name value for example, specified in an LC environment variable could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of that...

Amazon Linux AMI : php54 (ALAS-2014-343)

The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildcards with unlimited repetitions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via a crafted ASCII file that triggers a large amount of...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssl (ALAS-2011-4)

An uninitialized variable use flaw was found in OpenSSL. This flaw could cause an application using the OpenSSL Certificate Revocation List CRL checking functionality to incorrectly accept a CRL that has a nextUpdate date in the past. All OpenSSL users should upgrade to these updated packages,...

Amazon Linux AMI : axis (ALAS-2014-412)

It was discovered that Axis incorrectly extracted the host name from an X.509 certificate subject's Common Name CN field. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. CVE-2014-3596 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2014-417)

fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 does not properly restrict clearing MNTNODEV, MNTNOSUID, and MNTNOEXEC and changing MNTATIMEMASK during a remount of a bind mount, which allows local users to gain privileges, interfere with backups and auditing on systems that had atime enabled, ...

Amazon Linux AMI : python27 (ALAS-2014-380)

It was reported that Python built-in json module have a flaw insufficient bounds checking, which allows a local user to read current process' arbitrary memory. Quoting the upstream bug report : 'The sole prerequisites of this attack are that the attacker is able to control or influence the two...

Amazon Linux AMI : gnutls (ALAS-2014-352)

A flaw was found in the way GnuTLS parsed session IDs from ServerHello messages of the TLS/SSL handshake. A malicious server could use this flaw to send an excessively long session ID value, which would trigger a buffer overflow in a connecting TLS/SSL client application using GnuTLS, causing the...

Amazon Linux AMI : nrpe (ALAS-2014-364)

DISPUTED Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in nrpe.c in Nagios Remote Plugin Executor NRPE 2.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a newline character in the -a option to libexec/checknrpe. NOTE: this issue is disputed by multiple parties. It has been reported...

Amazon Linux AMI : php54 (ALAS-2014-367)

acinclude.m4, as used in the configure script in PHP 5.5.13 and earlier, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/phpglibccheck file. A denial of service flaw was found in the way the File Information fileinfo extension parsed certain Composite Document...

Amazon Linux AMI : automake19 (ALAS-2014-401)

It was found that the distcheck rule in Automake-generated Makefiles made a directory world-writable when preparing source archives. If a malicious, local user could access this directory, they could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running 'make distcheck'. C Tenable Networ...

Amazon Linux AMI : file (ALAS-2014-382)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the File Information fileinfo extension parsed certain Composite Document Format CDF files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash a PHP application using fileinfo via a specially crafted CDF file. Buffer overflow in the mconvert function in...

Amazon Linux AMI : squid (ALAS-2014-360)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way Squid processed certain HTTPS requests when the SSL Bump feature was enabled. A remote attacker could send specially crafted requests that could cause Squid to crash. CVE-2014-0128 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package chec...

Amazon Linux AMI : jakarta-commons-httpclient (ALAS-2014-410)

Apache Commons HttpClient 3.x, as used in Amazon Flexible Payments Service FPS merchant Java SDK and other products, does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name CN or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssl (ALAS-2014-349)

It was found that OpenSSL clients and servers could be forced, via a specially crafted handshake packet, to use weak keying material for communication. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to decrypt and modify traffic between a client and a server. CVE-2014-0224 Note: In order to...

Amazon Linux AMI : httpd (ALAS-2014-388)

A race condition flaw, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, was found in the modstatus httpd module. A remote attacker able to access a status page served by modstatus on a server using a threaded Multi-Processing Module MPM could send a specially crafted request that would cause the httpd chi...

Amazon Linux AMI : httpd (ALAS-2011-1)

The Apache HTTP Server is a popular web server. A flaw was found in the way the Apache HTTP Server handled Range HTTP headers. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause httpd to use an excessive amount of memory and CPU time via HTTP requests with a specially crafted Range header...

Amazon Linux AMI : php55 (ALAS-2014-332)

The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildcards with unlimited repetitions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via a crafted ASCII file that triggers a large amount of...