Amazon Linux AMI : jasper (ALAS-2015-479)

An off-by-one flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way JasPer decoded JPEG 2000 image files. A specially crafted file could cause an application using JasPer to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2014-8157 An unrestricted stack memory use flaw was found in...

Amazon Linux AMI : e2fsprogs (ALAS-2015-478)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in e2fsprogs. A specially crafted Ext2/3/4 file system could cause an application using the ext2fs library for example, fsck to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.6.0-openjdk (ALAS-2015-480) (POODLE)

A flaw was found in the way the Hotspot component in OpenJDK verified bytecode from the class files. An untrusted Java application or applet could possibly use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2014-6601 Multiple improper permission check issues were discovered in the JAX-WS, and...

Amazon Linux AMI : libyaml (ALAS-2015-481)

An assertion failure was found in the way the libyaml library parsed wrapped strings. An attacker able to load specially crafted YAML input into an application using libyaml could cause the application to crash. CVE-2014-9130 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package check...

Amazon Linux AMI : httpd24 (ALAS-2015-483)

modlua.c in the modlua module in the Apache HTTP Server 2.3.x and 2.4.x through 2.4.10 does not support an httpd configuration in which the same Lua authorization provider is used with different arguments within different contexts, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access...

Amazon Linux AMI : perl-YAML-LibYAML (ALAS-2015-482)

An assertion failure was found in the way the libyaml library parsed wrapped strings. An attacker able to load specially crafted YAML input into an application using libyaml could cause the application to crash. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plug...

Amazon Linux AMI : php54 (ALAS-2015-475)

sapi/cgi/cgimain.c in the CGI component in PHP through 5.4.36, 5.5.x through 5.5.20, and 5.6.x through 5.6.4, when mmap is used to read a .php file, does not properly consider the mapping's length during processing of an invalid file that begins with a character and lacks a newline character, whi...

Amazon Linux AMI : php55 (ALAS-2015-474)

sapi/cgi/cgimain.c in the CGI component in PHP through 5.4.36, 5.5.x through 5.5.20, and 5.6.x through 5.6.4, when mmap is used to read a .php file, does not properly consider the mapping's length during processing of an invalid file that begins with a character and lacks a newline character, whi...

Critical: glibc

Issue Overview: A heap-based buffer overflow was found in glibc's nsshostnamedigitsdots function, which is used by the gethostbyname and gethostbyname2 glibc function calls. A remote attacker able to make an application call either of these functions could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code...

Amazon Linux AMI : glibc (ALAS-2015-473)

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in glibc's nsshostnamedigitsdots function, which is used by the gethostbyname and gethostbyname2 glibc function calls. A remote attacker able to make an application call to either of these functions can use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.7.0-openjdk (ALAS-2015-471) (POODLE)

A flaw was found in the way the Hotspot component in OpenJDK verified bytecode from the class files. An untrusted Java application or applet could possibly use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2014-6601 Multiple improper permission check issues were discovered in the JAX-WS, and...

Amazon Linux AMI : xorg-x11-server (ALAS-2015-470)

Multiple integer overflow flaws and out-of-bounds write flaws were found in the way the X.Org server calculated memory requirements for certain X11 core protocol and GLX extension requests. A malicious, authenticated client could use either of these flaws to crash the X.Org server or, potentially...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssl (ALAS-2015-469) (FREAK)

OpenSSL before 0.9.8zd, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0p, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1k allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a crafted DTLS message that is processed with a different read operation for the handshake header than for the handshake bod...

Amazon Linux AMI : php54 (ALAS-2015-463)

Use-after-free vulnerability in the processnesteddata function in ext/standard/varunserializer.re in PHP before 5.4.36, 5.5.x before 5.5.20, and 5.6.x before 5.6.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted unserialize call that leverages improper handling of duplicate keys...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2015-465)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND followed DNS delegations. A remote attacker could use a specially crafted zone containing a large number of referrals which, when looked up and processed, would cause named to use excessive amounts of memory or crash. CVE-2014-8500 C Tenable...

Amazon Linux AMI : mailx (ALAS-2015-467)

A flaw was found in the way mailx handled the parsing of email addresses. A syntactically valid email address could allow a local attacker to cause mailx to execute arbitrary shell commands through shell meta-characters and the direct command execution functionality. CVE-2004-2771 , CVE-2014-7844...

Amazon Linux AMI : jasper (ALAS-2015-466)

Multiple off-by-one flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in the way JasPer decoded JPEG 2000 image files. A specially crafted file could cause an application using JasPer to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2014-9029 A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found ...

Amazon Linux AMI : glibc (ALAS-2015-468)

An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way glibc's iconv function converted certain encoded data to UTF-8. An attacker able to make an application call the iconv function with a specially crafted argument could use this flaw to crash that application. CVE-2014-6040 It was found that the...

Amazon Linux AMI : php55 (ALAS-2015-464)

Use-after-free vulnerability in the processnesteddata function in ext/standard/varunserializer.re in PHP before 5.4.36, 5.5.x before 5.5.20, and 5.6.x before 5.6.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted unserialize call that leverages improper handling of duplicate keys...

Amazon Linux AMI : ntp (ALAS-2014-462)

It was found that ntpd automatically generated weak keys for its internal use if no ntpdc request authentication key was specified in the ntp.conf configuration file. A remote attacker able to match the configured IP restrictions could guess the generated key, and possibly use it to send ntpdc...