Amazon Linux AMI : wget (ALAS-2018-1040)

A cookie injection flaw was found in wget. An attacker can create a malicious website which, when accessed, overrides cookies belonging to arbitrary domains.CVE-2018-0494 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI...

Amazon Linux AMI : 389-ds-base (ALAS-2018-1036)

It was found that 389-ds-base did not properly handle long search filters with characters needing escapes, possibly leading to buffer overflows. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to make ns-slapd crash via a specially crafted LDAP request, thus resulting in denial...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.7.0-openjdk (ALAS-2018-1037) (Spectre)

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions a commonly used performance optimization. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the...

Amazon Linux 2 : java-1.8.0-openjdk (ALAS-2018-1039) (Spectre)

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions a commonly used performance optimization. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the...

Amazon Linux AMI : git (ALAS-2018-1035)

In Git before 2.13.7, 2.14.x before 2.14.4, 2.15.x before 2.15.2, 2.16.x before 2.16.4, and 2.17.x before 2.17.1, code to sanity-check pathnames on NTFS can result in reading out-of-bounds memory.CVE-2018-11233 In Git before 2.13.7, 2.14.x before 2.14.4, 2.15.x before 2.15.2, 2.16.x before 2.16.4...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2018-1038) (Spectre)

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions a commonly used performance optimization. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the...

Amazon Linux 2 : curl (ALAS-2018-1029)

Curl version curl 7.54.1 to and including curl 7.59.0 contains a CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in denial of service and more that can result in curl might overflow a heap based memory buffer when closing down an FTP connection with very long server command...

Amazon Linux 2 : libvirt (ALAS-2018-1033) (Spectre)

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions a commonly used performance optimization. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the...

Amazon Linux 2 : procps-ng (ALAS-2018-1031)

Multiple integer overflows leading to heap corruption flaws were discovered in file2strvec. These vulnerabilities can lead to privilege escalation for a local attacker who can create entries in procfs by starting processes, which will lead to crashes or arbitrary code execution in proc utilities...

Amazon Linux 2 : 389-ds-base (ALAS-2018-1036)

It was found that 389-ds-base did not properly handle long search filters with characters needing escapes, possibly leading to buffer overflows. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to make ns-slapd crash via a specially crafted LDAP request, thus resulting in denial...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.8.0-openjdk (ALAS-2018-1039) (Spectre)

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions a commonly used performance optimization. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the...

Amazon Linux 2 : git (ALAS-2018-1035)

In Git before 2.13.7, 2.14.x before 2.14.4, 2.15.x before 2.15.2, 2.16.x before 2.16.4, and 2.17.x before 2.17.1, code to sanity-check pathnames on NTFS can result in reading out-of-bounds memory.CVE-2018-11233 In Git before 2.13.7, 2.14.x before 2.14.4, 2.15.x before 2.15.2, 2.16.x before 2.16.4...

Amazon Linux 2 : xdg-user-dirs (ALAS-2018-1030)

It was found that the system umask policy is not being honored when creating XDG user directories /Desktop etc on first login. This could lead to user's files being inadvertently exposed to other local users.CVE-2017-15131 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks i...

Amazon Linux 2 : java-1.7.0-openjdk (ALAS-2018-1037) (Spectre)

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions a commonly used performance optimization. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the...

Amazon Linux 2 : qemu-kvm (ALAS-2018-1034) (Spectre)

An out-of-bounds read access issue was found in the VGA display emulator built into the Quick emulator QEMU. It could occur while reading VGA memory to update graphics display. A privileged user/process inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in denial of...

Amazon Linux 2 : thunderbird (ALAS-2018-1032)

The following CVEs are fixed in the updated thunderbird package : CVE-2018-5161 : Hang via malformed headers CVE-2018-5162 : Encrypted mail leaks plaintext through src attribute CVE-2018-5183 : Backport critical security fixes in Skia CVE-2018-5155 : Use-after-free with SVG animations and text...

Important: 389-ds-base

Issue Overview: It was found that 389-ds-base did not properly handle long search filters with characters needing escapes, possibly leading to buffer overflows. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to make ns-slapd crash via a specially crafted LDAP request, thus...

Important: java-1.7.0-openjdk

Issue Overview: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions a commonly used performance optimization. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code...

Critical: thunderbird

Issue Overview: The following CVEs are fixed in the updated thunderbird package: CVE-2018-5161: Hang via malformed headers CVE-2018-5162: Encrypted mail leaks plaintext through src attribute CVE-2018-5183: Backport critical security fixes in Skia CVE-2018-5155: Use-after-free with SVG animations...

Important: git

Issue Overview: In Git before 2.13.7, 2.14.x before 2.14.4, 2.15.x before 2.15.2, 2.16.x before 2.16.4, and 2.17.x before 2.17.1, code to sanity-check pathnames on NTFS can result in reading out-of-bounds memory.CVE-2018-11233 In Git before 2.13.7, 2.14.x before 2.14.4, 2.15.x before 2.15.2, 2.16...