Amazon Linux AMI : nss (ALAS-2011-21)

It was found that the Malaysia-based Digicert Sdn. Bhd. subordinate Certificate Authority CA issued HTTPS certificates with weak keys. This update renders any HTTPS certificates signed by that CA as untrusted. This covers all uses of the certificates, including SSL, S/MIME, and code signing. Note...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2013-158)

A flaw was found in the DNS64 implementation in BIND when using Response Policy Zones RPZ. If a remote attacker sent a specially crafted query to a named server that is using RPZ rewrite rules, named could exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure. Note that DNS64 support is not enabled by...

Amazon Linux AMI : postgresql8 (ALAS-2012-82)

The pgdump utility inserted object names literally into comments in the SQL script it produces. An unprivileged database user could create an object whose name includes a newline followed by a SQL command. This SQL command might then be executed by a privileged user during later restore of the...

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 : 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 : java-1.6.0-openjdk (ALAS-2013-163)

An improper permission check issue was discovered in the JMX component in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2013-1486 It was discovered that OpenJDK leaked timing information when decrypting TLS/SSL protocol encrypted...

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...

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 : 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 : postgresql8 (ALAS-2012-94)

A flaw was found in the way the crypt password hashing function from the optional PostgreSQL pgcrypto contrib module performed password transformation when used with the DES algorithm. If the password string to be hashed contained the 0x80 byte value, the remainder of the string was ignored when...

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 : openssl (ALAS-2011-04)

The MITRE CVE database describes CVE-2011-3207 as : crypto/x509/x509vfy.c in OpenSSL 1.0.x before 1.0.0e does not initialize certain structure members, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass CRL validation by using a nextUpdate value corresponding to a time in the past. C Tenable...