Amazon Linux AMI : sos (ALAS-2016-666)

An insecure temporary file use flaw was found in the way sos created certain sosreport files. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to reveal the contents of sosreport files, or in some cases modify arbitrary files and escalate their privileges on the...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssl (ALAS-2016-661) (DROWN) (SLOTH)

A padding oracle flaw was found in the Secure Sockets Layer version 2.0 SSLv2 protocol. An attacker can potentially use this flaw to decrypt RSA-encrypted cipher text from a connection using a newer SSL/TLS protocol version, allowing them to decrypt such connections. This cross-protocol attack is...

Amazon Linux AMI : tomcat8 (ALAS-2016-658)

A directory traversal vulnerability in RequestUtil.java was discovered which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended SecurityManager restrictions and list a parent directory via a /.. slash dot dot in a pathname used by a web application in a getResource, getResourceAsStream, or...

Amazon Linux AMI : tomcat7 (ALAS-2016-657)

A directory traversal vulnerability in RequestUtil.java was discovered which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended SecurityManager restrictions and list a parent directory via a /.. slash dot dot in a pathname used by a web application in a getResource, getResourceAsStream, or...

Amazon Linux AMI : privoxy (ALAS-2016-663)

The removechunkedtransfercoding function allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service invalid read and crash via crafted chunk-encoded content. CVE-2016-1982 The clienthost function in parsers.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service invalid read and crash via an empty HTTP...

Amazon Linux AMI : glibc (ALAS-2016-660)

It was discovered that the calloc implementation in glibc could return memory areas which contain non-zero bytes. This could result in unexpected application behavior such as hangs or crashes. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted...

Amazon Linux AMI : 389-ds-base (ALAS-2016-664)

An infinite-loop vulnerability was discovered in the 389 directory server, where the server failed to correctly handle unexpectedly closed client connections. A remote attacker able to connect to the server could use this flaw to make the directory server consume an excessive amount of CPU and st...

Amazon Linux AMI : nginx (ALAS-2016-655)

It was discovered that nginx could perform an out of bound read and dereference an invalid pointer when resolving CNAME DNS records. An attacker able to manipulate DNS responses received by nginx could use this flaw to cause a worker process to crash if nginx enabled the resolver in its...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.6.0-openjdk (ALAS-2016-654)

An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the JPEG image format decoder in the AWT component in OpenJDK. A specially crafted JPEG image could cause a Java application to crash or, possibly execute arbitrary code. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox...

Amazon Linux AMI : glibc (ALAS-2016-653)

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the senddg and sendvc functions, used by getaddrinfo and other higher-level interfaces of glibc. A remote attacker able to cause an application to call either of these functions could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of t...

Amazon Linux AMI : nss (ALAS-2016-645) (SLOTH)

A flaw was found in the way TLS 1.2 could use the MD5 hash function for signing ServerKeyExchange and Client Authentication packets during a TLS handshake. A man-in-the-middle attacker able to force a TLS connection to use the MD5 hash function could use this flaw to conduct collision attacks to...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2016-641)

Specific APL RR data could cause a server to exit due to an INSIST failure in apl42.c when performing certain string formatting operations. CVE-2015-8704 CVE-2015-8705 was also issued today for bind, but the Amazon Linux AMI's version of bind is not impacted by that CVE. C Tenable Network Securit...

Amazon Linux AMI : ruby19 / ruby20,ruby21,ruby22 (ALAS-2016-632)

DL::dlopen could open a library with tainted library name even if $SAFE 0. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2016-632. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid87966;...

Amazon Linux AMI : php56 / php55 (ALAS-2016-640)

The imagerotate function lacked validation of the background color variable, an integer which represents an index of the color palette. A number larger than the length of the color palette could be used in the function, reading beyond the memory of the color palette and causing an information lea...

Amazon Linux AMI : realmd (ALAS-2016-636)

A flaw was found in the way realmd parsed certain input when writing configuration into the sssd.conf or smb.conf file. A remote attacker could use this flaw to inject arbitrary configurations into these files via a newline character in an LDAP response. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Medium: bind

Issue Overview: Specific APL RR data could cause a server to exit due to an INSIST failure in apl42.c when performing certain string formatting operations. CVE-2015-8704 CVE-2015-8705 was also issued today for bind, but the Amazon Linux AMI's version of bind is not impacted by that CVE. Affected...

Amazon Linux AMI : libldb (ALAS-2016-633)

A denial of service flaw was found in the ldbwildcardcompare function of libldb. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted packet that, when processed by an application using libldb for example the AD LDAP server in Samba, would cause that application to consume an excessive amount of memo...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2015-631)

An error in the parsing of incoming responses allows some records with an incorrect class to be be accepted by BIND instead of being rejected as malformed. This can trigger a REQUIRE assertion failure when those records are subsequently cached. Intentional exploitation of this condition is possib...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssh (ALAS-2015-625)

A flaw was found in the way OpenSSH handled PAM authentication when using privilege separation. An attacker with valid credentials on the system and able to fully compromise a non-privileged pre-authentication process using a different flaw could use this flaw to authenticate as other users. It w...

Amazon Linux AMI : tigervnc (ALAS-2015-623)

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way TigerVNC handled screen sizes. A malicious VNC server could use this flaw to cause a client to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the client. A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in TigerVNC...