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 : automake19 (ALAS-2014-401)

It was found that the distcheck rule in Automake-generated Makefiles made a directory world-writable when preparing source archives. If a malicious, local user could access this directory, they could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running 'make distcheck'. C Tenable Networ...

Amazon Linux AMI : squid (ALAS-2014-360)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way Squid processed certain HTTPS requests when the SSL Bump feature was enabled. A remote attacker could send specially crafted requests that could cause Squid to crash. CVE-2014-0128 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package chec...

Amazon Linux AMI : httpd (ALAS-2014-388)

A race condition flaw, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, was found in the modstatus httpd module. A remote attacker able to access a status page served by modstatus on a server using a threaded Multi-Processing Module MPM could send a specially crafted request that would cause the httpd chi...

Amazon Linux AMI : glibc (ALAS-2014-400)

A directory traversal flaw was found in the way glibc loaded locale files. An attacker able to make an application use a specially crafted locale name value for example, specified in an LC environment variable could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of that...

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 : 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 : 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 : gnutls (ALAS-2014-352)

A flaw was found in the way GnuTLS parsed session IDs from ServerHello messages of the TLS/SSL handshake. A malicious server could use this flaw to send an excessively long session ID value, which would trigger a buffer overflow in a connecting TLS/SSL client application using GnuTLS, causing the...

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-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...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssl (ALAS-2011-4)

An uninitialized variable use flaw was found in OpenSSL. This flaw could cause an application using the OpenSSL Certificate Revocation List CRL checking functionality to incorrectly accept a CRL that has a nextUpdate date in the past. All OpenSSL users should upgrade to these updated packages,...

Amazon Linux AMI : libXfont (ALAS-2014-404)

Multiple integer overflows in the 1 fsgetreply, 2 fsallocglyphs, and 3 fsreadextentinfo functions in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.8 and 1.4.9x before 1.4.99.901 allow remote font servers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted xfs reply, which triggers a buffer overflow. Multiple buffer overflows in...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssl (ALAS-2014-391)

A flaw was discovered in the way OpenSSL handled DTLS packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a DTLS server or client using OpenSSL to crash or use excessive amounts of memory. Multiple buffer overflows in crypto/srp/srplib.c in the SRP implementation in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1...

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 : bash (ALAS-2014-418) (Shellshock)

This ALAS is superceded by ALAS-2014-419. A flaw was found in the way Bash evaluated certain specially crafted environment variables. An attacker could use this flaw to override or bypass environment restrictions to execute shell commands. Certain services and applications allow remote...

Amazon Linux AMI : exim (ALAS-2014-395)

expand.c in Exim before 4.83 expands mathematical comparisons twice, which allows local users to gain privileges and execute arbitrary commands via a crafted lookup value. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI...

Amazon Linux AMI : php55 (ALAS-2014-372)

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...