Medium: gcc10, gcc

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in the way Unicode standards are implemented in the context of development environments, which have specialized requirements for rendering text. An attacker could exploit this to deceive a human reviewer by creating a malicious patch containing well placed BiDi...

Medium: expat

Issue Overview: 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 misbehavior e.g., allocating too few bytes, or only freeing memory. CVE-2021-45960 Affected Packages: expat Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon...

Medium: docker, containerd

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in Moby Docker Engine, where containers were started incorrectly with non-empty inheritable Linux process capabilities. This flaw allows an attacker with access to programs with inheritable file capabilities to elevate those capabilities to the permitted set when...

Amazon Linux 2 : gcc10, gcc (ALAS-2022-1784)

The version of gcc installed on the remote host is prior to 7.3.1-14. The version of gcc10 installed on the remote host is prior to 10.3.1-1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1784 advisory. A flaw was found in the way Unicode standards are implemented ...

Amazon Linux 2 : python-pillow, --advisory ALAS2-2022-1786 (ALAS-2022-1786)

The version of python-pillow installed on the remote host is prior to 2.0.0-23.gitd1c6db8. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1786 advisory. A flaw was found in python-pillow. The vulnerability occurs due to improper initialization of image path...

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 : 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 : java-11-amazon-corretto (ALAS-2022-1778)

The version of java-11-amazon-corretto installed on the remote host is prior to 11.0.15+9-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1778 advisory. Vulnerability in the Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE...

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 : grub2 (ALAS-2022-1787)

The version of grub2 installed on the remote host is prior to 2.06-9. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1787 advisory. A flaw in grub2 was found where its configuration file, known as grub.cfg, is being created with the wrong permission set allowing non...

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 : gzip, xz (ALAS-2022-1782)

The version of gzip installed on the remote host is prior to 1.5-10. The version of xz installed on the remote host is prior to 5.2.2-1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1782 advisory. An arbitrary file write vulnerability was found in GNU gzip's zgrep...

Important: golang

Issue Overview: An infinite loop vulnerability was found in golang. If an application defines a custom token parser initializing with xml.NewTokenDecoder it is possible for the parsing loop to never return. An attacker could potentially craft a malicious XML document which has an XML element with...

Amazon Linux 2 : thunderbird (ALAS-2022-1779)

The version of thunderbird installed on the remote host is prior to 91.7.0-2. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1779 advisory. A flaw was found in Thunderbird. The vulnerability occurs due to an out-of-bounds write of one byte when processing t...

Amazon Linux 2 : libtiff (ALAS-2022-1780)

The version of libtiff installed on the remote host is prior to 4.0.3-35. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1780 advisory. Integer overflow in the writeBufferToSeparateStrips function in tiffcrop.c in LibTIFF before 4.0.7 allows remote attacker...

Important: gzip, xz

Issue Overview: An arbitrary file write vulnerability was found in GNU gzip's zgrep utility. When zgrep is applied on the attacker's chosen file name for example, a crafted file name, this can overwrite an attacker's content to an arbitrary attacker-selected file. This flaw occurs due to...

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...

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...

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...