Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2018-1048)

An issue was discovered in the XFS filesystem in fs/xfs/libxfs/xfsattrleaf.c in the Linux kernel. A NULL pointer dereference may occur for a corrupted xfs image after xfsdashrinkinode is called with a NULL bp. This can lead to a system crash and a denial of service.CVE-2018-13094 An issue was...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2018-1046)

The fs/ext4/inline.c:ext4readinlinedata function in the Linux kernel performs a memcpy with an untrusted length value in certain circumstances involving a crafted filesystem that stores the system.data extended attribute value in a dedicated inode. The unbound copy can cause memory corruption or...

Amazon Linux AMI : ant (ALAS-2018-1047)

It was discovered that Ant's unzip and untar targets permit the extraction of files outside the target directory. A crafted zip or tar file submitted to an Ant build could create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running Ant.CVE-2018-10886 C Tenable Network Security, In...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2018-1044)

A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in the Linux kernel. If the close and fchownat system calls share a socket file descriptor as an argument, then the two calls can race and trigger a NULL pointer dereference leading to a system crash and a denial of service.CVE-2018-12232 C Tenable Netwo...

Amazon Linux AMI : gnupg / gnupg2 (ALAS-2018-1045)

A data validation flaw was found in the way gnupg processes file names during decryption and signature validation. An attacker may be able to inject messages into gnupg verbose message logging which may have the potential to bypass the integrity of signature authentication mechanisms and could ha...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: ansible security and bug fix update

An update for ansible is now available for Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilit...

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 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 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 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 : 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 : 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 : kernel (ALAS-2018-1023)

A weakness was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of random seed data. Programs, early in the boot sequence, could use the data allocated for the seed before it was sufficiently generated. CVE-2018-1108 A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled exceptions delivered after a stac...

Amazon Linux AMI : mysql56 (ALAS-2018-1027)

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL subcomponent: InnoDB. Supported versions that are affected are 5.6.39 and prior and 5.7.21 and prior. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Server...

Amazon Linux AMI : dhcp (ALAS-2018-1024)

Command injection vulnerability in the DHCP client NetworkManager integration script A command injection flaw was found in the NetworkManager integration script included in the DHCP client packages in Amazon Linux 2. A malicious DHCP server, or an attacker on the local network able to spoof DHCP...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.7.0-openjdk (ALAS-2018-1007)

Unbounded memory allocation during deserialization in NamedNodeMapImpl JAXP, 8189993 Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded, JRockit component of Oracle Java SE subcomponent: JAXP. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u171, 8u162 and 10; Java SE Embedded: 8u161; JRockit:...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssl (ALAS-2018-1016)

There is an overflow bug in the AVX2 Montgomery multiplication procedure used in exponentiation with 1024-bit moduli. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely. Attack...

Amazon Linux AMI : php56 / php70,php71 (ALAS-2018-1019)

NULL pointer dereference due to mishandling of ldapgetdn return value allows denial-of-service by malicious LDAP server or man-in-the-middle attacker An issue was discovered in PHP before 5.6.36, 7.0.x before 7.0.30, 7.1.x before 7.1.17, and 7.2.x before 7.2.5. ext/ldap/ldap.c allows remote LDAP...

Amazon Linux AMI : python34 / python35,python36,python27 (ALAS-2018-1003)

DOS via regular expression catastrophic backtracking in apop method in pop3lib A flaw was found in the way catastrophic backtracking was implemented in python's pop3lib's apop method. An attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service. CVE-2018-1060 DOS via regular expression backtracking...

Amazon Linux AMI : stunnel / amazon-efs-utils (ALAS-2018-996)

This update adds the checkHost option to stunnel, which verifies the host of the peer certificate subject. Certificates are accepted if no checkHost option was specified, or the host name of the peer certificate matches any of the hosts specified with checkHost. This update adds the OCSPaia optio...