Amazon Linux AMI : postgresql94 / postgresql93,postgresql92 (ALAS-2016-662)

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the PostgreSQL handling code for regular expressions. A remote attacker could use a specially crafted regular expression to cause PostgreSQL to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Amazon Linux AMI : privoxy (ALAS-2016-663)

The removechunkedtransfercoding function allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service invalid read and crash via crafted chunk-encoded content. CVE-2016-1982 The clienthost function in parsers.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service invalid read and crash via an empty HTTP...

Nexpose Scan Engine on the AWS Marketplace

Rapid7 is excited to announce that you can now find a Nexpose Scan Engine AMI on the Amazon Web Services Marketplace making it simple to deploy a pre-authorized Nexpose Scan Engine from the AWS Marketplace to scan your AWS assets! What is an AMI ? An Amazon Machine Image AMI allows you to launch ...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.6.0-openjdk (ALAS-2016-654)

An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the JPEG image format decoder in the AWT component in OpenJDK. A specially crafted JPEG image could cause a Java application to crash or, possibly execute arbitrary code. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox...

Amazon Linux AMI : nginx (ALAS-2016-655)

It was discovered that nginx could perform an out of bound read and dereference an invalid pointer when resolving CNAME DNS records. An attacker able to manipulate DNS responses received by nginx could use this flaw to cause a worker process to crash if nginx enabled the resolver in its...

Amazon Linux AMI : glibc (ALAS-2016-653)

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the senddg and sendvc functions, used by getaddrinfo and other higher-level interfaces of glibc. A remote attacker able to cause an application to call either of these functions could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of t...

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 : 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...

Medium: bind

Issue Overview: 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. Affected...

Amazon Linux AMI : ruby19 / ruby20,ruby21,ruby22 (ALAS-2016-632)

DL::dlopen could open a library with tainted library name even if $SAFE 0. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2016-632. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid87966;...

Amazon Linux AMI : realmd (ALAS-2016-636)

A flaw was found in the way realmd parsed certain input when writing configuration into the sssd.conf or smb.conf file. A remote attacker could use this flaw to inject arbitrary configurations into these files via a newline character in an LDAP response. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

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 : php56 / php55 (ALAS-2016-640)

The imagerotate function lacked validation of the background color variable, an integer which represents an index of the color palette. A number larger than the length of the color palette could be used in the function, reading beyond the memory of the color palette and causing an information lea...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2015-631)

An error in the parsing of incoming responses allows some records with an incorrect class to be be accepted by BIND instead of being rejected as malformed. This can trigger a REQUIRE assertion failure when those records are subsequently cached. Intentional exploitation of this condition is possib...

Amazon Linux AMI : git (ALAS-2015-613)

A flaw was found in the way the git-remote-ext helper processed certain URLs. If a user had Git configured to automatically clone submodules from untrusted repositories, an attacker could inject commands into the URL of a submodule, allowing them to execute arbitrary code on the user's system. C...

Amazon Linux AMI : libxml2 (ALAS-2015-628)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the libxml2 library parsed certain XML files. An attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when parsed by an application using libxml2, could cause that application to use an excessive amount of memory. The xmlParseConditionalSections...

Amazon Linux AMI : perl-HTML-Scrubber (ALAS-2015-629)

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the HTML-Scrubber module before 0.15 for Perl, when the comment feature is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted comment. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plug...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssl (ALAS-2015-614)

A NULL pointer derefernce flaw was found in the way OpenSSL verified signatures using the RSA PSS algorithm. A remote attacked could possibly use this flaw to crash a TLS/SSL client using OpenSSL, or a TLS/SSL server using OpenSSL if it enabled client authentication. CVE-2015-3194 A memory leak...

Amazon Linux AMI : tigervnc (ALAS-2015-623)

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way TigerVNC handled screen sizes. A malicious VNC server could use this flaw to cause a client to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the client. A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in TigerVNC...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssh (ALAS-2015-625)

A flaw was found in the way OpenSSH handled PAM authentication when using privilege separation. An attacker with valid credentials on the system and able to fully compromise a non-privileged pre-authentication process using a different flaw could use this flaw to authenticate as other users. It w...