Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2018-956) (Dirty COW) (Spectre)

Kernel address information leak in drivers/acpi/sbshc.c:acpismbushcadd function potentially allowing KASLR bypass The acpismbushcadd function in drivers/acpi/sbshc.c in the Linux kernel, through 4.14.15, allows local users to obtain sensitive address information by reading dmesg data from an SBS ...

Amazon Linux AMI : quagga (ALAS-2018-957)

Infinite loop issue triggered by invalid OPEN message allows denial-of-service An infinite loop vulnerability was discovered in Quagga. A BGP peer could send specially crafted packets that would cause the daemon to enter an infinite loop, denying service and consuming CPU until it is...

Amazon Linux AMI : php56 / php70,php71 (ALAS-2018-946)

Reflected XSS in .phar 404 page An issue was discovered in PHP; there is Reflected XSS on the PHAR 404 error page via the URI of a request for a .phar file. CVE-2018-5712 Denial of Service DoS via infinite loop in libgd gdImageCreateFromGifCtx function in ext/gd/libgd/gdgifin.c The gdgifin.c file...

Amazon Linux AMI : tomcat7 (ALAS-2018-947)

Incorrect documentation of CGI Servlet search algorithm may lead to misconfiguration : As part of the fix for bug 61201, the documentation for Apache Tomcat included an updated description of the search algorithm used by the CGI Servlet to identify which script to execute. The update was not...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.8.0-openjdk (ALAS-2018-949)

SingleEntryRegistry incorrect setup of deserialization filter JMX, 8186998 It was discovered that the JMX component of OpenJDK failed to properly set the deserialization filter for the SingleEntryRegistry in certain cases. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to bypass intended...

Amazon Linux AMI : python27 (ALAS-2018-945)

Integer overflow in PyStringDecodeEscape results in heap-base buffer overflow CPython aka Python is vulnerable to an integer overflow in the PyStringDecodeEscape function in stringobject.c, resulting in heap-based buffer overflow and possible arbitrary code execution CVE-2017-1000158 C Tenable...

Amazon Linux AMI : qemu-kvm (ALAS-2018-942) (Spectre)

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance optimization. There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be exploited. Variant...

Amazon Linux AMI : curl (ALAS-2018-938)

The NTLM authentication feature in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 on 32-bit platforms allows attackers to cause a denial of service integer overflow and resultant buffer overflow, and application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving long user and password fields...

Amazon Linux AMI : qemu-kvm (ALAS-2017-934)

Quick Emulator QEMU, compiled with the PC System Emulator with multiboot feature support, is vulnerable to an OOB r/w memory access issue. The issue could occur due to an integer overflow while loading a kernel image during a guest boot. A user or process could use this flaw to potentially achiev...

Amazon Linux AMI : sssd (ALAS-2017-935)

Unsanitized input when searching in local cache database It was found that sssd's sysdbsearchuserbyupnres function did not sanitize requests when querying its local cache and was vulnerable to injection. In a centralized login environment, if a password hash was locally cached for a given user, a...

Amazon Linux AMI : exim (ALAS-2017-932)

Use-after-free in receivemsg function via vectors involving BDAT commands The receivemsg function in receive.c in the SMTP daemon in Exim 4.88 and 4.89 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service use-after-free via vectors involving BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16943...

Amazon Linux AMI : postgresql92 / postgresql93,postgresql94 (ALAS-2017-931)

Privilege escalation flaws were found in the initialization scripts of PostgreSQL. A remote attacker with access to the postgres user account could use these flaws to obtain root access on the server machine. CVE-2017-12172 Invalid jsonpopulaterecordset or jsonbpopulaterecordset function calls in...

Amazon Linux AMI : postgresql95 / postgresql96 (ALAS-2017-930)

Privilege escalation flaws were found in the initialization scripts of PostgreSQL. A remote attacker with access to the postgres user account could use these flaws to obtain root access on the server machine.CVE-2017-12172 INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE commands in PostgreSQL disclose table...

Amazon Linux AMI : mysql56 / mysql57 (ALAS-2017-926)

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL subcomponent: Client programs. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized...

Amazon Linux AMI : apr (ALAS-2017-928)

An out-of-bounds array dereference was found in aprtimeexpget. An attacker could abuse an unvalidated usage of this function to cause a denial of service or potentially lead to data leak.CVE-2017-12613 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Amazon Linux AMI : curl (ALAS-2017-922)

IMAP FETCH response out of bounds read : A buffer overrun flaw was found in the IMAP handler of libcurl. By tricking an unsuspecting user into connecting to a malicious IMAP server, an attacker could exploit this flaw to potentially cause information disclosure or crash the application...

Amazon Linux AMI : php56 / php70,php71 (ALAS-2017-924)

pcre: heap buffer overflow in handling of duplicate named groups 8.39/14 The pcrecompile2 function in pcrecompile.c mishandles a specific type of pattern with named subgroups, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer overflow or possibly have unspecified other...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2017-925)

Incorrect updates of uninstantiated keys crash the kernel A vulnerability was found in the key management subsystem of the Linux kernel. An update on an uninstantiated key could cause a kernel panic, leading to denial of service DoS. CVE-2017-15299 Memory leak when merging buffers in SCSI IO...

Amazon Linux AMI : curl (ALAS-2017-919)

FTP PWD response parser out of bounds read libcurl may read outside of a heap allocated buffer when doing FTP. When libcurl connects to an FTP server and successfully logs in anonymous or not, it asks the server for the current directory with the PWD command. The server then responds with a 257...

Amazon Linux AMI : httpd (ALAS-2017-921)

Hash character matches all IPs : A regression was found in httpd, causing comments in the 'Allow' and 'Deny' configuration lines to be parsed incorrectly. A web administrator could unintentionally allow any client to access a restricted HTTP resource. CVE-2017-12171 C Tenable Network Security, In...