Amazon Linux 2 : thunderbird (ALAS-2022-1789)

The version of thunderbird installed on the remote host is prior to 91.8.0-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1789 advisory. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: NSSToken objects were referenced via direct points,...

Amazon Linux 2 : expat (ALAS-2022-1788)

The version of expat installed on the remote host is prior to 2.1.0-12. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1788 advisory. In Expat aka libexpat before 2.4.3, a left shift by 29 or more places in the storeAtts function in xmlparse.c can lead to realloc...

Amazon Linux 2 : containerd (ALAS-2022-1775)

The version of containerd installed on the remote host is prior to 1.4.13-2. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1775 advisory. A flaw was found in Moby Docker Engine, where containers were started incorrectly with non-empty inheritable Linux process...

Amazon Linux 2 : golang (ALAS-2022-1776)

The version of golang installed on the remote host is prior to 1.16.15-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1776 advisory. A validation flaw was found in golang. When invoking functions from WASM modules built using GOARCH=wasm GOOS=js, passing...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel, --advisory ALAS2-2022-1774 (ALAS-2022-1774)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.275-207.503. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1774 advisory. A buffer overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel's NFC protocol functionality. This flaw allows a local user t...

Amazon Linux 2 : log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch (ALAS-2022-1773)

The version of log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch installed on the remote host is prior to 1.1-16. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1773 advisory. The Apache Log4j hotpatch package starting with log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch-1.1-16 will now explicitly mimic...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: A buffer overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel's NFC protocol functionality. This flaw allows a local user to crash or escalate their privileges on the system. CVE-2022-26490 A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in IPsec ESP transformation code in net/ipv4/esp4.c and...

Important: log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch

Issue Overview: The Apache Log4j hotpatch package starting with log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch-1.1-16 will now explicitly mimic the Linux capabilities and cgroups of the target Java process that the hotpatch is applied to. In order to mimic the Linux capabilities of the target process, Amazon Linu...

Important: zlib

Issue Overview: An out-of-bounds access flaw was found in zlib, which allows memory corruption when deflating ex: when compressing if the input has many distant matches. For some rare inputs with a large number of distant matches crafted payloads, the buffer into which the compressed or deflated...

Amazon Linux 2 : vim (ALAS-2022-1771)

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1771 advisory. A flaw was found in vim that causes an out-of-range pointer offset vulnerability. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted file, leading to a crash or code execution. CVE-2022-05...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel, --advisory ALAS2-2022-1768 (ALAS-2022-1768)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.273-207.502. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1768 advisory. A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in linux/net/netfilter/nftablesapi.c of the netfilter subsystem. This flaw...

Amazon Linux 2 : libgcrypt (ALAS-2022-1769)

The version of libgcrypt installed on the remote host is prior to 1.5.3-14. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1769 advisory. A side-channel attack flaw was found in the way libgcrypt implemented Elgamal encryption. This flaw allows an attacker to decryp...

Amazon Linux 2 : openldap (ALAS-2022-1770)

The version of openldap installed on the remote host is prior to 2.4.44-23. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1770 advisory. A flaw was found in OpenLDAP. This flaw allows an attacker who can send a malicious packet to be processed by OpenLDAP'...

Amazon Linux 2 : glibc (ALAS-2022-1767)

The version of glibc installed on the remote host is prior to 2.26-58. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1767 advisory. A stack based buffer-overflow vulnerability was found in the deprecated compatibility function svcunixcreate in the sunrpc's...

Amazon Linux 2 : openssl, openssl11 (ALAS-2022-1766)

The version of openssl installed on the remote host is prior to 1.0.2k-24. The version of openssl11 installed on the remote host is prior to 1.1.1g-12. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1766 advisory. The BNmodsqrt function, which computes a modular...

Critical: expat

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in expat. Passing malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences for example, from start tag names to the XML processing application on top of expat can lead to arbitrary code execution. This issue is dependent on how invalid UTF-8 is handled inside the XML processor...

Amazon Linux 2 : expat (ALAS-2022-1764)

The version of expat installed on the remote host is prior to 2.1.0-12. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1764 advisory. A flaw was found in expat. Passing malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences for example, from start tag names to the XML...

Amazon Linux 2 : containerd (ALAS-2022-016) (deprecated)

This plugin has been deprecated following detection of an issue with overlapping filenames. Deprecated by al2ALASDOCKER-2022-016.nasl plugin ID 160406 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory...

Medium: containerd

Issue Overview: containerd is an open source container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability. A bug was found in containerd where container root directories and some plugins had insufficiently restricted permissions, allowing otherwise unprivileged Linux users to...

Amazon Linux 2 : expat (ALAS-2022-1759)

The version of expat installed on the remote host is prior to 2.1.0-12. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1759 advisory. An integer overflow was found in expat. The issue occurs in storeRawNames by abusing the mbuffer expansion logic to allow allocation...