Amazon Linux AMI : libpng (ALAS-2012-49)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in libpng. An attacker could create a specially crafted PNG image that, when opened, could cause an application using libpng to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. CVE-2011-3026 C Tenable...

Amazon Linux AMI : puppet (ALAS-2013-181)

The 1 template and 2 inlinetemplate functions in the master server in Puppet before 2.6.18, 2.7.x before 2.7.21, and 3.1.x before 3.1.1, and Puppet Enterprise before 1.2.7 and 2.7.x before 2.7.2 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted catalog request. C Tenable...

Amazon Linux AMI : postgresql8 (ALAS-2012-129)

It was found that the optional PostgreSQL xml2 contrib module allowed local files and remote URLs to be read and written to with the privileges of the database server when parsing Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations XSLT. An unprivileged database user could use this flaw to read and...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssh (ALAS-2012-99)

A denial of service flaw was found in the OpenSSH GSSAPI authentication implementation. A remote, authenticated user could use this flaw to make the OpenSSH server daemon sshd use an excessive amount of memory, leading to a denial of service. GSSAPI authentication is enabled by default...

Amazon Linux AMI : puppet (ALAS-2012-53)

Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.14 and 2.7.x before 2.7.11, and Puppet Enterprise PE Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x before 2.0.3, when managing a user login file with the k5login resource type, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on .k5login. The changeuser method in the SUIDManager...

Amazon Linux AMI : libtirpc (ALAS-2013-199)

A flaw was found in the way libtirpc decoded RPC requests. A specially crafted RPC request could cause libtirpc to attempt to free a buffer provided by an application using the library, even when the buffer was not dynamically allocated. This could cause an application using libtirpc, such as...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2012-146)

A flaw was found in the DNS64 implementation in BIND. If a remote attacker sent a specially crafted query to a named server, named could exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure. Note that DNS64 support is not enabled by default. CVE-2012-5688 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2012-138)

A flaw was found in the way BIND handled certain combinations of resource records. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a recursive resolver, or an authoritative server in certain configurations, to lockup. CVE-2012-5166 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Amazon Linux AMI : nginx (ALAS-2013-189)

http/modules/ngxhttpproxymodule.c in nginx 1.1.4 through 1.2.8 and 1.3.0 through 1.4.0, when proxypass is used with untrusted HTTP servers, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and obtain sensitive information from worker process memory via a crafted proxy response, a simila...

Amazon Linux AMI : puppet (ALAS-2012-75)

Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.15 and 2.7.x before 2.7.13, and Puppet Enterprise PE Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows remote authenticated users with an authorized SSL key and certain permissions on the puppet master to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack in conjunction...

Amazon Linux AMI : openswan (ALAS-2011-06)

When an ISAKMP message with an invalid KEYLENGTH attribute is received, the error handling function crashes on a NULL pointer dereference. Openswan automatically restarts the pluto IKE daemon but all ISAKMP state is lost. This vulnerability does NOT allow an attacker access to the system. This ca...

Amazon Linux AMI : openjpeg (ALAS-2012-111)

An input validation flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way OpenJPEG handled the tile number and size in an image tile header. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted image file that, when decoded using an application linked against OpenJPEG, would cause th...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2011-22)

The epoll implementation in the Linux kernel 2.6.37.2 and earlier does not properly traverse a tree of epoll file descriptors, which allows local users to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via a crafted application that makes epollcreate and epollctl system calls. Buffer overflow in the...

Amazon Linux AMI : python27 (ALAS-2012-81)

SimpleXMLRPCServer.py in SimpleXMLRPCServer in Python before 2.6.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.3, 3.x before 3.1.5, and 3.2.x before 3.2.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop and CPU consumption via an XML-RPC POST request that contains a smaller amount of data than specified...

Amazon Linux AMI : php (ALAS-2013-211)

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 : fail2ban (ALAS-2013-209)

The apache-auth.conf, apache-nohome.conf, apache-noscript.conf, and apache-overflows.conf files in Fail2ban before 0.8.10 do not properly validate log messages, which allows remote attackers to block arbitrary IP addresses via certain messages in a request. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2011-26)

IPv6 fragment identification value generation could allow a remote attacker to disrupt a target system's networking, preventing legitimate users from accessing its services. CVE-2011-2699 , Important A signedness issue was found in the Linux kernel's CIFS Common Internet File System implementatio...

Amazon Linux AMI : puppet (ALAS-2012-135)

Directory traversal vulnerability in lib/puppet/reports/store.rb in Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, when Delete is enabled in auth.conf, allows remote authenticated users to delete arbitrary files on the puppet master server via a .. dot dot in a...

Amazon Linux AMI : libxml2 (ALAS-2012-36)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 decoded entity references with long names. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when opened in an application linked against libxml2, would cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrar...

Amazon Linux AMI : openldap (ALAS-2012-101)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the OpenLDAP server daemon slapd processed certain search queries requesting only attributes and no values. In certain configurations, a remote attacker could issue a specially crafted LDAP search query that, when processed by slapd, would cause slapd...