Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2016-772)

CVE-2016-8645 kernel: a BUG statement can be hit in net/ipv4/tcpinput.c It was discovered that the Linux kernel since 3.6-rc1 with net.ipv4.tcpfastopen; set to 1 can hit BUG statement in tcpcollapse function after making a number of certain syscalls leading to a possible system crash. CVE-2016-86...

Amazon Linux AMI : php-ZendFramework (ALAS-2016-767)

The implementation of ORDER BY and GROUP BY in ZendDbSelect was discovered to be vulnerable to SQL injection. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2016-767. include'compat.inc'; if...

Amazon Linux AMI : poppler (ALAS-2016-769)

A heap-buffer overflow was found in the poppler library. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause applications that use poppler to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when opened. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plug...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssh (ALAS-2016-770)

It was discovered that the OpenSSH sshd daemon fetched PAM environment settings before running the login program. In configurations with UseLogin=yes and the pamenv PAM module configured to read user environment settings, a local user could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as root. C Tenab...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2016-768)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND handled responses containing a DNAME answer. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS response. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Amazon Linux AMI : policycoreutils (ALAS-2016-765)

It was found that the sandbox tool provided in policycoreutils was vulnerable to a TIOCSTI ioctl attack. A specially crafted program executed via the sandbox command could use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands in the context of the parent bash, escaping the sandbox. C Tenable Network...

Amazon Linux AMI : tomcat6 / tomcat7,tomcat8 (ALAS-2016-764)

It was discovered that the Tomcat packages installed certain configuration files read by the Tomcat initialization script as writeable to the tomcat group. A member of the group or a malicious web application deployed on Tomcat could use this flaw to escalate their privileges. CVE-2016-6325 A...

Amazon Linux AMI : memcached (ALAS-2016-761)

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the memcached binary protocol. An attacker could create a specially crafted message that would cause the memcached server to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-8704 , CVE-2016-8705 An integer...

Amazon Linux AMI : curl (ALAS-2016-766)

This build resolves the following issues : CVE-2016-8615 : Cookie injection for other servers CVE-2016-8616 : Case insensitive password comparison CVE-2016-8617 : Out-of-bounds write via unchecked multiplication CVE-2016-8618 : Double-free in curlmaprintf CVE-2016-8619 : Double-free in krb5 code...

Amazon Linux AMI : cloud-init (ALAS-2016-763)

It was discovered that cloud-init in the Amazon Linux AMI wrote IAM role credentials from the instance metadata service to files readable by the root user in /var/lib/cloud. An application with root privileges, a container with access to the relevant files, or a root user of an AMI derived from a...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2016-762)

The IP stack in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service stack consumption and panic or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering use of the GRO path for packets with tunnel stacking, as demonstrated by interleaved IPv4 headers and GRE headers, a...

Important: cloud-init

Issue Overview: It was discovered that cloud-init in the Amazon Linux AMI wrote IAM role credentials from the instance metadata service to files readable by the root user in /var/lib/cloud. An application with root privileges, a container with access to the relevant files, or a root user of an AM...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.8.0-openjdk (ALAS-2016-759)

It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK did not properly check arguments of the System.arraycopy function in certain cases. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to corrupt virtual machine's memory and completely bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2016-558...

Amazon Linux AMI : python-twisted-web (ALAS-2016-760)

It was discovered that python-twisted-web used the value of the Proxy header from HTTP requests to initialize the HTTPPROXY environment variable for CGI scripts, which in turn was incorrectly used by certain HTTP client implementations to configure the proxy for outgoing HTTP requests. A remote...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-712)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-713)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-750)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-722)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-727)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-739)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...