CVE-2016-5247

The BIOS for Lenovo ThinkCentre E93, M6500t/s, M6600, M6600q, M6600t/s, M73p, M800, M83, M8500t/s, M8600t/s, M900, M93, and M93P devices; ThinkServer RQ940, RS140, TS140, TS240, TS440, and TS540 devices; and ThinkStation E32, P300, and P310 devices might allow local users or physically proximate...

CVE-2016-5247

The CVE-2016-5247 issue concerns Lenovo systems (ThinkCentre M-series, ThinkServer TS/RS, ThinkStation E32/P300/P310, among others) where AMI BIOS test keys could allow local or physically proximate attackers to bypass Secure Boot. The Lenovo advisory LEN-7806 notes a test certificate/key was mis...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.6.0-openjdk (ALAS-2016-748)

An insufficient bytecode verification flaw was discovered in the Hotspot component in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to completely bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2016-3606 Multiple denial of service flaws were found in the JAXP component in OpenJDK. A...

Amazon Linux AMI : postgresql92 / postgresql93,postgresql94 (ALAS-2016-747)

A flaw was found in the way PostgreSQL server handled certain SQL statements containing CASE/WHEN commands. A remote, authenticated attacker could use a specially crafted SQL statement to cause PostgreSQL to crash or disclose a few bytes of server memory or possibly execute arbitrary code...

Amazon Linux AMI : lighttpd (ALAS-2016-746)

It was discovered that lighttpd class did not properly protect against the HTTPPROXY variable name clash in a CGI context. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to redirect HTTP requests performed by a CGI script to an attacker-controlled proxy via a malicious HTTP request. C Tenable...

Amazon Linux AMI : libgcrypt / gnupg (ALAS-2016-744)

A design flaw was found in the libgcrypt PRNG Pseudo-Random Number Generator. An attacker who can obtain the first 580 bytes of the PRNG output can trivially predict the following 20 bytes. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2016-740)

A use after free vulnerability was found in tcpxmitretransmitqueue and other tcp functions. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2016-740. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Amazon Linux AMI : collectd (ALAS-2016-739)

A heap-based buffer overflow in the parsepacket function in network.c in collectd allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted network packet. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Amazon Linux AMI : python34 / python27,python26 (ALAS-2016-741) (httpoxy)

It was discovered that the Python CGIHandler class did not properly protect against the HTTPPROXY variable name clash in a CGI context. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to redirect HTTP requests performed by a Python CGI script to an attacker-controlled proxy via a malicious HTTP...

Amazon Linux AMI : curl (ALAS-2016-730)

curl and libcurl before 7.50.1 do not prevent TLS session resumption when the client certificate has changed, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions by resuming a session. CVE-2016-5419 curl and libcurl before 7.50.1 do not check the client certificate when choosing the TLS...

Amazon Linux AMI : libtiff (ALAS-2016-733)

Multiple flaws have been discovered in libtiff. A remote attacker could exploit these flaws to cause a crash or memory corruption and, possibly, execute arbitrary code by tricking an application linked against libtiff into processing specially crafted files. CVE-2014-9655 , CVE-2015-1547 ,...

Amazon Linux AMI : squid (ALAS-2016-735)

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Squid cachemgr.cgi utility processed remotely relayed Squid input. When the CGI interface utility is used, a remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-4051 It was found that the fix for CVE-2016-4051 did not...

Amazon Linux AMI : tomcat7 / tomcat8 (ALAS-2016-736)

A denial of service vulnerability was identified in Commons FileUpload that occurred when the length of the multipart boundary was just below the size of the buffer 4096 bytes used to read the uploaded file if the boundary was the typical tens of bytes long. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Amazon Linux AMI : mysql56 (ALAS-2016-737)

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL 5.6.30 and earlier allows remote administrators to affect availability via vectors related to Server: RBR. CVE-2016-5440 Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL 5.6.30 and earlier allows remote administrators to affect availability via vectors related t...

Amazon Linux AMI : golang (ALAS-2016-731) (httpoxy)

An input-validation flaw was discovered in the Go programming language built in CGI implementation, which set the environment variable 'HTTPPROXY' using the incoming 'Proxy' HTTP-request header. The environment variable 'HTTPPROXY' is used by numerous web clients, including Go's net/http package,...

AWS OpenVPN Deployment Tool: AutoVPN

AWS OpenVPN Deployment Tool Dependencies: boto and paramiko python packages and aws .credentials file on system 1. Clone repo to system. 2. Execute autovpn with -C -k and -r options to deploy to AWS ./autovpn -C -r us-east-1 -k macbook 3. OpenVPN config files are downloaded to current working...

Amazon Linux AMI : ntp (ALAS-2016-727)

It was discovered that ntpq and ntpdc disclosed the origin timestamp to unauthenticated clients, which could permit such clients to forge the server's replies. CVE-2015-8139 The processpacket function in ntpproto.c in ntpd in NTP 4.x before 4.2.8p8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2016-726)

It was found that nfsd is missing permissions check when setting ACL on files, this may allow a local users to gain access to any file by setting a crafted ACL. CVE-2016-1237 A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's keyring handling code, where in keyrejectandlink an uninitialised variable would...

Amazon Linux AMI : php55 / php56 (ALAS-2016-728) (httpoxy)

A stack consumption vulnerability in GD in PHP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted imagefilltoborder call. CVE-2015-8874 An integer overflow, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow was found in the imagecreatefromgd2 function of PHP's gd extension. A remote attacke...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.7.0-openjdk (ALAS-2016-729)

Multiple flaws were discovered in the Hotspot and Libraries components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to completely bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2016-3606 , CVE-2016-3598 , CVE-2016-3610 Multiple denial of service flaws were found in the JAXP...