Amazon Linux AMI : nrpe (ALAS-2014-364)

DISPUTED Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in nrpe.c in Nagios Remote Plugin Executor NRPE 2.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a newline character in the -a option to libexec/checknrpe. NOTE: this issue is disputed by multiple parties. It has been reported...

Amazon Linux AMI : php54 (ALAS-2014-367)

acinclude.m4, as used in the configure script in PHP 5.5.13 and earlier, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/phpglibccheck file. A denial of service flaw was found in the way the File Information fileinfo extension parsed certain Composite Document...

Amazon Linux AMI : httpd (ALAS-2014-414)

The modheaders module in the Apache HTTP Server 2.2.22 allows remote attackers to bypass 'RequestHeader unset' directives by placing a header in the trailer portion of data sent with chunked transfer coding. NOTE: the vendor states 'this is not a security issue in httpd as such.' C Tenable Networ...

Amazon Linux AMI : lighttpd (ALAS-2014-346)

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in 1 modevhost and 2 modsimplevhost in lighttpd before 1.4.35 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. dot dot in the host name, related to requestcheckhostname. SQL injection vulnerability in modmysqlvhost.c in lighttpd before 1.4.35...

Amazon Linux AMI : perltidy (ALAS-2014-356)

It was discovered that perltidy's maketemporaryfilename function insecurely created temporary files via the use of the tmpnam function. A local attacker could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2014-339)

The nttywrite function in drivers/tty/ntty.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.3 does not properly manage tty driver access in the 'LECHO & !OPOST' case, which allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and system crash or gain privileges by triggering a race condition...

Amazon Linux AMI : perl-Capture-Tiny (ALAS-2014-358)

"It was found 1 that the Capture::Tiny module, provided by the perl-Capture-Tiny package, used the File::temp::tmpnam module to generate temporary files : ./lib/Capture/Tiny.pm: $stash-flagfiles$which = scalar tmpnam C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Amazon Linux AMI : php54 (ALAS-2014-343)

The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildcards with unlimited repetitions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via a crafted ASCII file that triggers a large amount of...

Amazon Linux AMI : python27 (ALAS-2014-380)

It was reported that Python built-in json module have a flaw insufficient bounds checking, which allows a local user to read current process' arbitrary memory. Quoting the upstream bug report : 'The sole prerequisites of this attack are that the attacker is able to control or influence the two...

Amazon Linux AMI : cyrus-imapd (ALAS-2011-2)

The cyrus-imapd packages contain a high-performance mail server with IMAP, POP3, NNTP, and Sieve support. A buffer overflow flaw was found in the cyrus-imapd NNTP server, nntpd. A remote user able to use the nntpd service could use this flaw to crash the nntpd child process or, possibly, execute...

Amazon Linux AMI : bash (ALAS-2014-419)

GNU Bash through 4.3 bash43-025 processes trailing strings after certain malformed function definitions in the values of environment variables, which allows remote attackers to write to files or possibly have unknown other impact via a crafted environment, as demonstrated by vectors involving the...

Amazon Linux AMI : mod_security (ALAS-2014-335)

apache2/modsecurity.c in ModSecurity before 2.7.6 allows remote attackers to bypass rules by using chunked transfer coding with a capitalized Chunked value in the Transfer-Encoding HTTP header. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted...

Amazon Linux AMI : jakarta-commons-httpclient (ALAS-2014-410)

Apache Commons HttpClient 3.x, as used in Amazon Flexible Payments Service FPS merchant Java SDK and other products, does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name CN or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssl097a (ALAS-2014-351)

It was found that OpenSSL clients and servers could be forced, via a specially crafted handshake packet, to use weak keying material for communication. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to decrypt and modify traffic between a client and a server. CVE-2014-0224 C Tenable Network...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssl (ALAS-2014-349)

It was found that OpenSSL clients and servers could be forced, via a specially crafted handshake packet, to use weak keying material for communication. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to decrypt and modify traffic between a client and a server. CVE-2014-0224 Note: In order to...

Amazon Linux AMI : php55 (ALAS-2014-332)

The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildcards with unlimited repetitions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via a crafted ASCII file that triggers a large amount of...

Amazon Linux AMI : httpd (ALAS-2014-331)

It was found that the moddav module did not correctly strip leading white space from certain elements in a parsed XML. In certain httpd configurations that use the moddav module for example when using the moddavsvn module, a remote attacker could send a specially crafted DAV request that would...

Amazon Linux AMI : freetype (ALAS-2011-8)

Multiple input validation flaws were found in the way FreeType processed bitmap font files. If a specially crafted font file was loaded by an application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user runnin...

Amazon Linux AMI : file (ALAS-2014-382)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the File Information fileinfo extension parsed certain Composite Document Format CDF files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash a PHP application using fileinfo via a specially crafted CDF file. Buffer overflow in the mconvert function in...

Amazon Linux AMI : httpd (ALAS-2011-1)

The Apache HTTP Server is a popular web server. A flaw was found in the way the Apache HTTP Server handled Range HTTP headers. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause httpd to use an excessive amount of memory and CPU time via HTTP requests with a specially crafted Range header...