Amazon Linux AMI : python-rsa (ALAS-2016-644)

It was found that python-rsa is vulnerable to Bleichenbacher'06 attack, allowing attacker to fake signatures for any public key with low exponent. CVE-2016-1494 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security...

Amazon Linux AMI : mod24_nss (ALAS-2016-650)

It was found that the parsing of the NSSCipherSuite option of mod24nss, which accepts OpenSSL-style cipherstrings, is flawed. If the option is used to disable insecure ciphersuites using the common '!' syntax, it will actually enable those insecure ciphersuites. CVE-2015-5244 C Tenable Network...

Amazon Linux AMI : pngcrush (ALAS-2016-646)

A double-free bug was discovered in pngcrush's handling of the sPLT chunk. A malicious PNG could crash the pngcrush process. CVE-2015-7700 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2016-646...

Amazon Linux AMI : nss (ALAS-2016-645) (SLOTH)

A flaw was found in the way TLS 1.2 could use the MD5 hash function for signing ServerKeyExchange and Client Authentication packets during a TLS handshake. A man-in-the-middle attacker able to force a TLS connection to use the MD5 hash function could use this flaw to conduct collision attacks to...

Amazon Linux AMI : gnutls (ALAS-2016-651) (SLOTH)

A flaw was found in the way TLS 1.2 could use the MD5 hash function for signing ServerKeyExchange and Client Authentication packets during a TLS handshake. A man-in-the-middle attacker able to force a TLS connection to use the MD5 hash function could use this flaw to conduct collision attacks to...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2016-642)

Perception Point Research identified a use-after-free vulnerability, representing a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel. Their post contains a detailed analysis of the bug. kernel-4.1.13-19.30.amzn1 and earlier versions are impacted. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2016-641)

Specific APL RR data could cause a server to exit due to an INSIST failure in apl42.c when performing certain string formatting operations. CVE-2015-8704 CVE-2015-8705 was also issued today for bind, but the Amazon Linux AMI's version of bind is not impacted by that CVE. C Tenable Network Securit...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-636)

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-2016-640)

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-2016-638)

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-2016-637)

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-2016-642)

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-2016-635)

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-2016-639)

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-2016-641)

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-2016-634)

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-2016-633)

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-2016-632)

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 AMI : libldb (ALAS-2016-633)

A denial of service flaw was found in the ldbwildcardcompare function of libldb. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted packet that, when processed by an application using libldb for example the AD LDAP server in Samba, would cause that application to consume an excessive amount of memo...

Amazon Linux AMI : sssd (ALAS-2016-635)

It was found that SSSD's Privilege Attribute Certificate PAC responder plug-in would leak a small amount of memory on each authentication request. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to exhaust all available memory on the system by making repeated requests to a Kerberized daemon...