Important: bind

Issue Overview: Improper fetch cleanup sequencing in the resolver can cause named to crash A use-after-free flaw leading to denial of service was found in the way BIND internally handled cleanup operations on upstream recursion fetch contexts. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to...

Amazon Linux AMI : python27 (ALAS-2018-945)

Integer overflow in PyStringDecodeEscape results in heap-base buffer overflow CPython aka Python is vulnerable to an integer overflow in the PyStringDecodeEscape function in stringobject.c, resulting in heap-based buffer overflow and possible arbitrary code execution CVE-2017-1000158 C Tenable...

Amazon Linux AMI : tomcat7 (ALAS-2018-947)

Incorrect documentation of CGI Servlet search algorithm may lead to misconfiguration : As part of the fix for bug 61201, the documentation for Apache Tomcat included an updated description of the search algorithm used by the CGI Servlet to identify which script to execute. The update was not...

Amazon Linux AMI : php56 / php70,php71 (ALAS-2018-946)

Reflected XSS in .phar 404 page An issue was discovered in PHP; there is Reflected XSS on the PHAR 404 error page via the URI of a request for a .phar file. CVE-2018-5712 Denial of Service DoS via infinite loop in libgd gdImageCreateFromGifCtx function in ext/gd/libgd/gdgifin.c The gdgifin.c file...

Amazon Linux AMI : git (ALAS-2018-948)

Mishandling layers of tree objects Git through 2.14.2 mishandles layers of tree objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted repository, aka a Git bomb. This can also have an impact of disk consumption; however, an affected process typically...

Amazon Linux AMI : transmission (ALAS-2018-950)

Transmission relies on X-Transmission-Session-Id which is not a forbidden header for Fetch for access control, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary RPC commands, and consequently write to arbitrary files, via POST requests to /transmission/rpc in conjunction with a DNS rebinding...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.8.0-openjdk (ALAS-2018-949)

SingleEntryRegistry incorrect setup of deserialization filter JMX, 8186998 It was discovered that the JMX component of OpenJDK failed to properly set the deserialization filter for the SingleEntryRegistry in certain cases. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to bypass intended...

Important: curl

Issue Overview: HTTP authentication leak in redirects libcurl might accidentally leak authentication data to third parties. When asked to send custom headers in its HTTP requests, libcurl will send that set of headers first to the host in the initial URL but also, if asked to follow redirects and...

Important: libvirt

Issue Overview: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance optimization. There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be...

Amazon Linux AMI : python35 / python34 (ALAS-2018-943)

CPython aka Python is vulnerable to an integer overflow in the PyStringDecodeEscape function in stringobject.c, resulting in heap-based buffer overflow and possible arbitrary code execution CVE-2017-1000158 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin we...

Amazon Linux AMI : docker (ALAS-2018-941)

Lack of content verification in Docker-CE Also known as Moby versions 1.12.6-0, 1.10.3, 17.03.0, 17.03.1, 17.03.2, 17.06.0, 17.06.1, 17.06.2, 17.09.0, and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service via a crafted image layer payload, aka gzip bombing. CVE-2017-14992 C Tenable...

Amazon Linux AMI : qemu-kvm (ALAS-2018-942) (Spectre)

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance optimization. There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be exploited. Variant...

Critical: kernel

Issue Overview: An updated kernel release for Amazon Linux has been made available which prevents speculative execution of indirect branches within the kernel. This release incorporates latest stable open source Linux security improvements to address CVE-2017-5715 within the kernel and builds upo...

Amazon Linux AMI : collectd (ALAS-2018-940)

Double free in csnmpreadtable function in snmp.c : The csnmpreadtable function in snmp.c in the SNMP plugin in collectd before 5.6.3 is susceptible to a double free in a certain error case, which could lead to a crash or potentially have other impact. CVE-2017-16820 C Tenable Network Security, In...

Amazon Linux AMI : curl (ALAS-2018-938)

The NTLM authentication feature in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 on 32-bit platforms allows attackers to cause a denial of service integer overflow and resultant buffer overflow, and application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving long user and password fields...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2018-939) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

An updated kernel release for Amazon Linux has been made available which prevents speculative execution of indirect branches within the kernel. This release incorporates latest stable open source Linux security improvements to address CVE-2017-5715 within the kernel and builds upon previously...

Critical: kernel

Issue Overview: An updated kernel release for Amazon Linux has been made available which prevents speculative execution of indirect branches within the kernel. This release incorporates latest stable open source Linux security improvements to address CVE-2017-5715 within the kernel and builds upo...

Amazon Linux AMI : sssd (ALAS-2017-935)

Unsanitized input when searching in local cache database It was found that sssd's sysdbsearchuserbyupnres function did not sanitize requests when querying its local cache and was vulnerable to injection. In a centralized login environment, if a password hash was locally cached for a given user, a...

Amazon Linux AMI : qemu-kvm (ALAS-2017-934)

Quick Emulator QEMU, compiled with the PC System Emulator with multiboot feature support, is vulnerable to an OOB r/w memory access issue. The issue could occur due to an integer overflow while loading a kernel image during a guest boot. A user or process could use this flaw to potentially achiev...

Amazon Linux AMI : exim (ALAS-2017-932)

Use-after-free in receivemsg function via vectors involving BDAT commands The receivemsg function in receive.c in the SMTP daemon in Exim 4.88 and 4.89 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service use-after-free via vectors involving BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16943...