Amazon Linux AMI : python27 / python34,python35,python36 (ALAS-2019-1169)

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability was found in the certificate parsing code in Python. This causes a denial of service to applications when parsing specially crafted certificates. This vulnerability is unlikely to be triggered if application enables SSL/TLS certificate validation and accep...

Amazon Linux AMI : perl (ALAS-2019-1180)

Perl has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations. CVE-2018-18311 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2019-1180. include'compat.inc'; if...

Amazon Linux AMI : libwmf (ALAS-2019-1174)

The GD Graphics Library aka LibGD has a double free in the gdImagePtr functions in gdgifout.c, gdjpeg.c, and gdwbmp.c. NOTE: PHP is unaffected. CVE-2019-6978 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security...

Amazon Linux AMI : file (ALAS-2019-1186)

dobidnote in readelf.c in libmagic.a has a stack-based buffer over-read, related to fileprintf and filevprintf. CVE-2019-8904 docorenote in readelf.c in libmagic.a has a stack-based buffer over-read, related to fileprintable, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-10360 . CVE-2019-8905 docorenot...

Amazon Linux AMI : squid (ALAS-2019-1176)

A memory leak was discovered in the way Squid handles SNMP denied queries. A remote attacker may use this flaw to exhaust the resources on the server machine. CVE-2018-19132 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AM...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.7.0-openjdk (ALAS-2019-1177)

Vulnerability in the Java SE component of Oracle Java SE subcomponent: Libraries. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: A kernel memory leak was found in the kernelreadfile function in the fs/exec.c file in the Linux kernel. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a memory leak and thus a denial of service DoS.CVE-2019-8980 A flaw was found in mmap in the Linux kernel allowing the process to map a...

Important: flatpak

Issue Overview: Earlier versions of flatpak exposes /proc in the applyextra script sandbox, which allows attackers to modify a host-side executable file.CVE-2019-8308 Affected Packages: flatpak Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the...

Medium: java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-1.7.0-openjdk

Issue Overview: Vulnerability in the Java SE component of Oracle Java SE subcomponent: Libraries. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other...

Important: filesystem

Issue Overview: Images built for the Amazon Linux 2.0.20190218 release included system files with incorrect permissions applied. Incorrect permissions were applied to files including: /etc/fstab /etc/localtime /etc/image-id /etc/sysconfig/i18n /etc/sysconfig/clock /etc/sysconfig/keyboard...

Amazon Linux AMI : golang (ALAS-2019-1172)

Go mishandles P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption or possibly conduct ECDH private key recovery attacks. CVE-2019-6486 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazo...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2019-1167)

In the Linux kernel afalgrelease in crypto/afalg.c neglects to set a NULL value for a certain structure member, which leads to a use-after-free UAF in sockfssetattr. A local attacker can use this flaw to escalate privileges and take control of the system. CVE-2019-8912 C Tenable Network Security,...

Amazon Linux AMI : httpd24 (ALAS-2019-1166)

In Apache HTTP server by sending request bodies in a slow loris way to plain resources, the h2 stream for that request unnecessarily occupied a server thread cleaning up that incoming data. This affects only HTTP/2 modhttp2 connections. CVE-2018-17189 A bug exists in the way modssl handled client...

Vuls - Vulnerability Scanner For Linux/FreeBSD, Agentless, Written In Go

Vulnerability scanner for Linux/FreeBSD, agentless, written in golang. Twitter: @vulsen DEMO Abstract For a system administrator, having to perform security vulnerability analysis and software update on a daily basis can be a burden. To avoid downtime in production environment, it is common for...

Amazon Linux 2 : libXcursor (ALAS-2019-1173)

XcursorThemeInherits in library.c in libXcursor before 1.1.15 allows remote attackers to cause denial of service or potentially code execution via a one-byte heap overflow.CVE-2015-9262 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2019-1165)

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor implements its device control API. While creating a device via kvmioctlcreatedevice, the device holds a reference to a VM object, later this reference is transferred to the caller's file descriptor table. If suc...

Amazon Linux 2 : golang (ALAS-2019-1172)

Go mishandles P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption or possibly conduct ECDH private key recovery attacks.CVE-2019-6486 Note: This CVE is also fixed in golang-1.11.3-2.amzn2.0.2 in the golang1.11 extras repository. C Tenable Network...

Amazon Linux 2 : polkit (ALAS-2019-1171)

A vulnerability was found in polkit. When authentication is performed by a non-root user to perform an administrative task, the authentication is temporarily cached in such a way that a local attacker could impersonate the authorized process, thus gaining access to elevated privileges.CVE-2019-61...

Amazon Linux 2 : libwmf (ALAS-2019-1174)

The GD Graphics Library aka LibGD 2.2.5 has a double free in the gdImagePtr functions in gdgifout.c, gdjpeg.c, and gdwbmp.c. NOTE: PHP is unaffected.CVE-2019-6978 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux 2 Security...

Amazon Linux 2 : bind (ALAS-2019-1170)

Crash from assertion error when debug log level is 10 and log entries meet buffer boundary. This flaw appears to be exploitable only when debug logging is enabled and set to at least a level of 10. As this configuration should be rare in production instances of bind, it is unlikely that most...