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 : freetype (ALAS-2012-66)

Multiple flaws were found in the way FreeType handled fonts in various formats. If a specially crafted font file was loaded by an application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.6.0-openjdk (ALAS-2012-136) (ROBOT)

Multiple improper permission check issues were discovered in the Beans, Swing, and JMX components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2012-5086 , CVE-2012-5084 , CVE-2012-5089 Multiple improper permission check issues...

Amazon Linux AMI : freetype (ALAS-2011-20)

Multiple input validation flaws were found in the way FreeType processed CID-keyed fonts. If a specially crafted font file was loaded by an application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssl (ALAS-2012-62)

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way OpenSSL parsed Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions S/MIME messages. An attacker could use this flaw to crash an application that uses OpenSSL to decrypt or verify S/MIME messages. CVE-2012-1165 A flaw was found in the PKCS7 and...

Amazon Linux AMI : texlive (ALAS-2012-48)

TeX Live embeds a copy of t1lib. The t1lib library allows you to rasterize bitmaps from PostScript Type 1 fonts. The following issues affect t1lib code : Two heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the way t1lib processed Adobe Font Metrics AFM files. If a specially crafted font file was...

Amazon Linux AMI : freetype (ALAS-2011-08)

The MITRE CVE database describes CVE-2011-3256 as : FreeType 2 before 2.4.7, as used in CoreGraphics in Apple iOS before 5, Mandriva Enterprise Server 5, and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service memory corruption via a crafted fon...

Amazon Linux AMI : nginx (ALAS-2012-63)

Use-after-free vulnerability in nginx before 1.0.14 and 1.1.x before 1.1.17 allows remote HTTP servers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted backend response, in conjunction with a client request. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks...

Amazon Linux AMI : mysql51 (ALAS-2013-152)

This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the MySQL database server. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2013-152. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid69711;...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2012-84)

A flaw was found in the way BIND handled zero length resource data records. 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 crash or, possibly, disclose portions of its memory...

Amazon Linux AMI : krb5 (ALAS-2012-114)

An uninitialized pointer use flaw was found in the way the MIT Kerberos KDC handled initial authentication requests AS-REQ. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash the KDC via a specially crafted AS-REQ request. CVE-2012-1015 A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in th...

Amazon Linux AMI : gnutls (ALAS-2012-59)

A flaw was found in the way GnuTLS decrypted malformed TLS records. This could cause a TLS/SSL client or server to crash when processing a specially crafted TLS record from a remote TLS/SSL connection peer. CVE-2012-1573 A boundary error was found in the gnutlssessiongetdata function. A malicious...

Amazon Linux AMI : postgresql8 (ALAS-2012-94)

A flaw was found in the way the crypt password hashing function from the optional PostgreSQL pgcrypto contrib module performed password transformation when used with the DES algorithm. If the password string to be hashed contained the 0x80 byte value, the remainder of the string was ignored when...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssh (ALAS-2013-165)

Due to the way the pamsshagentauth PAM module was built, the glibc's error function was called rather than the intended error function in pamsshagentauth to report errors. As these two functions expect different arguments, it was possible for an attacker to cause an application using...

Amazon Linux AMI : httpd (ALAS-2013-193)

Cross-site scripting XSS flaws were found in the modproxybalancer module's manager web interface. If a remote attacker could trick a user, who was logged into the manager web interface, into visiting a specially crafted URL, it would lead to arbitrary web script execution in the context of the...

Amazon Linux AMI : nrpe (ALAS-2013-203)

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in nrpc.c in Nagios Remote Plug-In Executor NRPE before 2.14 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via '$' shell metacharacters, which are processed by bash. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

Amazon Linux AMI : httpd (ALAS-2011-01)

The MITRE CVE database describes CVE-2011-3192 as : The byterange filter in the Apache HTTP Server 1.3.x, 2.0.x through 2.0.64, and 2.2.x through 2.2.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory and CPU consumption via a Range header that expresses multiple overlapping ranges, a...

Amazon Linux AMI : openvpn (ALAS-2013-201)

The openvpndecrypt function in crypto.c in OpenVPN 2.3.0 and earlier, when running in UDP mode, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a timing attack involving an HMAC comparison function that does not run in constant time and a padding oracle attack on the CBC mode cipher. ...

Amazon Linux AMI : libxml2 (ALAS-2013-188)

libxml2 2.9.0 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service CPU and memory consumption via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to this entity, aka 'internal entity expansion' with linear complexity. C Tenable...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.6.0-openjdk (ALAS-2013-163)

An improper permission check issue was discovered in the JMX component in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2013-1486 It was discovered that OpenJDK leaked timing information when decrypting TLS/SSL protocol encrypted...