Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2012-118)

The rdsrecvmsg function in net/rds/recv.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0.44 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a 1 recvfrom or 2 recvmsg system call on an RDS socket. C Tenable Network...

Amazon Linux AMI : cacti (ALAS-2011-23)

The release notes for Cacti 0.8.7h indicate that two security vulnerabilities were fixed, though no corresponding CVE has been issued. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2011-23...

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 : mysql51 (ALAS-2012-92)

A flaw was found in the way MySQL processed HANDLER READ NEXT statements after deleting a record. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to provide such requests, causing mysqld to crash. This issue only caused a temporary denial of service, as mysqld was automatically restarted aft...

Amazon Linux AMI : mesa (ALAS-2013-198)

An out-of-bounds access flaw was found in Mesa. If an application using Mesa exposed the Mesa API to untrusted inputs Mozilla Firefox does this, an attacker could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application...

Amazon Linux AMI : mysql51 (ALAS-2012-145)

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the user permission checking code in MySQL. An authenticated database user could use this flaw to crash the mysqld daemon or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the mysqld daemon. CVE-2012-5611 C Tenable...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssl (ALAS-2012-85)

An integer underflow flaw, leading to a buffer over-read, was found in the way OpenSSL handled DTLS Datagram Transport Layer Security application data record lengths when using a block cipher in CBC cipher-block chaining mode. A malicious DTLS client or server could use this flaw to crash its DTL...

Amazon Linux AMI : php (ALAS-2013-205)

Heap-based buffer overflow in the phpquotprintencode function in ext/standard/quotprint.c in PHP before 5.3.26 and 5.4.x before 5.4.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted argument to the quotedprintableenco...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2012-124)

A flaw was found in the way BIND handled resource records with a large RDATA value. A malicious owner of a DNS domain could use this flaw to create specially crafted DNS resource records, that would cause a recursive resolver or secondary server to exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure...

Amazon Linux AMI : ruby (ALAS-2012-139)

Ruby 1.8.7 before patchlevel 371, 1.9.3 before patchlevel 286, and 2.0 before revision r37068 allows context-dependent attackers to bypass safe-level restrictions and modify untainted strings via the nameerrmesgtostr API function, which marks the string as tainted, a different vulnerability than...

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 : 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 : 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 : perl (ALAS-2013-177)

A heap overflow flaw was found in Perl. If a Perl application allowed user input to control the count argument of the string repeat operator, an attacker could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application...

Amazon Linux AMI : httpd (ALAS-2013-174)

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in the balancerhandler function in the manager interface in modproxybalancer.c in the modproxybalancer module in the Apache HTTP Server 2.2.x before 2.2.24-dev and 2.4.x before 2.4.4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML vi...

Important: nss

Issue Overview: It was found that a Certificate Authority CA mis-issued two intermediate certificates to customers. These certificates could be used to launch man-in-the-middle attacks. This update renders those certificates as untrusted. This covers all uses of the certificates, including SSL,...

Medium: mysql51

Issue Overview: This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the MySQL database server. Affected Packages: mysql51 Issue Correction: Run yum update mysql51 or yum update --advisory ALAS-2013-152 to update your system. New Packages: i686: mysql51-5.1.67-1.60.amzn1.i686 ...

OS Identification : Linux Distribution

This plugin attempts to identify the operating system type and version by looking at certain files on the remote operating system e.g., '/etc/redhat-release' on Red Hat. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid25335;...