Amazon Linux AMI : openssl (ALAS-2012-62)

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way OpenSSL parsed Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions S/MIME messages. An attacker could use this flaw to crash an application that uses OpenSSL to decrypt or verify S/MIME messages. CVE-2012-1165 A flaw was found in the PKCS7 and...

Amazon Linux AMI : rsyslog (ALAS-2012-105)

A numeric truncation error, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way the rsyslog imfile module processed text files containing long lines. An attacker could use this flaw to crash the rsyslogd daemon or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of rsyslogd, if the...

Amazon Linux AMI : nginx (ALAS-2012-63)

Use-after-free vulnerability in nginx before 1.0.14 and 1.1.x before 1.1.17 allows remote HTTP servers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted backend response, in conjunction with a client request. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks...

Amazon Linux AMI : libtiff (ALAS-2012-106)

libtiff did not properly convert between signed and unsigned integer values, leading to a buffer overflow. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted TIFF file that, when opened, would cause an application linked against libtiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code...

Amazon Linux AMI : php-ZendFramework (ALAS-2013-153)

The 1 ZendFeedRss and 2 ZendFeedAtom classes in ZendFeed in Zend Framework 1.11.x before 1.11.15 and 1.12.x before 1.12.1 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files, send HTTP requests to intranet servers, and possibly cause a denial of service CPU and memory consumption via an XML External...

Amazon Linux AMI : glibc (ALAS-2012-109)

Multiple errors in glibc's formatted printing functionality could allow an attacker to bypass FORTIFYSOURCE protections and execute arbitrary code using a format string flaw in an application, even though these protections are expected to limit the impact of such flaws to an application abort. C...

Amazon Linux AMI : php (ALAS-2013-205)

Heap-based buffer overflow in the phpquotprintencode function in ext/standard/quotprint.c in PHP before 5.3.26 and 5.4.x before 5.4.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted argument to the quotedprintableenco...

Amazon Linux AMI : openjpeg (ALAS-2012-111)

An input validation flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way OpenJPEG handled the tile number and size in an image tile header. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted image file that, when decoded using an application linked against OpenJPEG, would cause th...

Amazon Linux AMI : libxml2 (ALAS-2012-143)

A heap-based buffer underflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 decoded certain entities. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when opened in an application linked against libxml2, would cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.6.0-openjdk (ALAS-2012-136) (ROBOT)

Multiple improper permission check issues were discovered in the Beans, Swing, and JMX components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2012-5086 , CVE-2012-5084 , CVE-2012-5089 Multiple improper permission check issues...

Amazon Linux AMI : mysql55 (ALAS-2013-187)

This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the MySQL database server. Information about these flaws can be found in the References section. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2013-18...

Amazon Linux AMI : perl (ALAS-2011-19)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Perl decoded Unicode strings. An attacker could create a malicious Unicode string that, when decoded by a Perl program, would cause the program to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the...

Amazon Linux AMI : icu (ALAS-2012-33)

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way ICU performed variant canonicalization for some locale identifiers. If a specially crafted locale representation was opened in an application linked against ICU, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code wi...

Amazon Linux AMI : rpm (ALAS-2012-61)

Multiple flaws were found in the way RPM parsed package file headers. An attacker could create a specially crafted RPM package that, when its package header was accessed, or during package signature verification, could cause an application using the RPM library such as the rpm command line tool, ...

Amazon Linux AMI : libxslt (ALAS-2012-123)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxslt applied templates to nodes selected by certain namespaces. An attacker could use this flaw to create a malicious XSL file that, when used by an application linked against libxslt to perform an XSL transformation, could cause the...

Amazon Linux AMI : postgresql9 (ALAS-2013-178)

Argument injection vulnerability in PostgreSQL 9.2.x before 9.2.4, 9.1.x before 9.1.9, and 9.0.x before 9.0.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service file corruption, and allows remote authenticated users to modify configuration settings and execute arbitrary code, via a connection...

Amazon Linux AMI : busybox (ALAS-2012-103)

A buffer underflow flaw was found in the way the uncompress utility of BusyBox expanded certain archive files compressed using Lempel-Ziv compression. If a user were tricked into expanding a specially crafted archive file with uncompress, it could cause BusyBox to crash or, potentially, execute...

Amazon Linux AMI : cacti (ALAS-2012-32)

The release notes for Cacti 0.8.7i indicate that two security vulnerabilities were fixed, though no corresponding CVE has been issued. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2012-32...

Amazon Linux AMI : gdb (ALAS-2013-159)

GDB tried to auto-load certain files such as GDB scripts, Python scripts, and a thread debugging library from the current working directory when debugging programs. This could result in the execution of arbitrary code with the user's privileges when GDB was run in a directory that has untrusted...

Amazon Linux AMI : rubygems (ALAS-2012-79)

RubyGems before 1.8.23 can redirect HTTPS connections to HTTP, which makes it easier for remote attackers to observe or modify a gem during installation via a man-in-the-middle attack. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amaz...