Amazon Linux AMI : php54 (ALAS-2014-333)

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 : php55 (ALAS-2014-342)

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 : file (ALAS-2014-398)

Integer overflow in the cdfreadpropertyinfo function in cdf.c in file through 5.19, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.32 and 5.5.x before 5.5.16, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted CDF file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists becaus...

Amazon Linux AMI : squid (ALAS-2014-411)

A flaw was found in the way Squid handled malformed HTTP Range headers. A remote attacker able to send HTTP requests to the Squid proxy could use this flaw to crash Squid. CVE-2014-3609 A buffer overflow flaw was found in Squid's DNS lookup module. A remote attacker able to send HTTP requests to...

Amazon Linux AMI : cyrus-sasl (ALAS-2014-338)

Cyrus SASL 2.1.23, 2.1.26, and earlier does not properly handle when a NULL value is returned upon an error by the crypt function as implemented in glibc 2.17 and later, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service thread crash and consumption via 1 an invalid salt or, when FIPS-140...

Amazon Linux AMI : python-jinja2 (ALAS-2014-371)

The default configuration for bccache.FileSystemBytecodeCache in Jinja2 before 2.7.2 does not properly create temporary files, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted .cache file with a name starting with jinja2 in /tmp. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Amazon Linux AMI : gnupg2 (ALAS-2014-379)

The douncompress function in g10/compress.c in GnuPG 1.x before 1.4.17 and 2.x before 2.0.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop via malformed compressed packets, as demonstrated by an a3 01 5b ff byte sequence. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Amazon Linux AMI : php55 (ALAS-2014-415)

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. gdctx.c in the GD component in PHP 5.4.x befo...

Amazon Linux AMI : exim (ALAS-2014-395)

expand.c in Exim before 4.83 expands mathematical comparisons twice, which allows local users to gain privileges and execute arbitrary commands via a crafted lookup value. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI...

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 : libxcb (ALAS-2014-405)

Integer overflow in X.org libxcb 1.9 and earlier allows X servers to trigger allocation of insufficient memory and a buffer overflow via vectors related to the readpacket function. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon...

Amazon Linux AMI : chkrootkit (ALAS-2014-370)

A quoting issue was found in chkrootkit which would lead to a file in /tmp/ being executed, if /tmp/ was mounted without the noexec option. chkrootkit is typically run as the root user. A local attacker could use this flaw to escalate their privileges. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Amazon Linux AMI : ca-certificates (ALAS-2011-3)

This package contains the set of CA certificates chosen by the Mozilla Foundation for use with the Internet Public Key Infrastructure PKI. It was found that a Certificate Authority CA issued fraudulent HTTPS certificates. This update removes that CA's root certificate from the ca-certificates...

Amazon Linux AMI : cacti (ALAS-2014-381)

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Cacti 0.8.8b allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 drpaction parameter to cdef.php, 2 datainput.php, 3 dataqueries.php, 4 datasources.php, 5 datatemplates.php, 6 graphtemplates.php, 7 graphs.php, 8 host.php, or...

Amazon Linux AMI : json-c (ALAS-2014-416)

The hash functionality in json-c before 0.12 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via crafted JSON data, involving collisions. Buffer overflow in the printbuf APIs in json-c before 0.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified...

Amazon Linux AMI : httpd24 (ALAS-2014-389)

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 : mysql55 (ALAS-2014-329)

This update fixes numerous unspecified by upstream vulnerabilities in the MySQL Server component 5.5.35 and earlier and 5.6.15 and earlier. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2014-329...

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 : libtasn1 (ALAS-2014-359)

It was discovered that the asn1getbitder function of the libtasn1 library incorrectly reported the length of ASN.1-encoded data. Specially crafted ASN.1 input could cause an application using libtasn1 to perform an out-of-bounds access operation, causing the application to crash or, possibly,...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssh (ALAS-2014-369)

sshd in OpenSSH before 6.6 does not properly support wildcards on AcceptEnv lines in sshdconfig, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended environment restrictions by using a substring located before a wildcard character. The verifyhostkey function in sshconnect.c in the client in OpenSSH...