Amazon Linux AMI : scipy (ALAS-2013-242)

scipy: weave /tmp and current directory issues CVE-2013-4251 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2013-242. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid70904; scriptversion"1.5";...

Amazon Linux AMI : python26 (ALAS-2013-241)

It was discovered that multiple Python standard library modules implementing network protocols such as httplib or smtplib failed to restrict sizes of server responses. A malicious server could cause a client using one of the affected modules to consume an excessive amount of memory. CVE-2013-1752...

Amazon Linux AMI : gc (ALAS-2013-245)

It was discovered that gc's implementation of the malloc and calloc routines did not properly perform parameter sanitization when allocating memory. If an application using gc did not implement application-level validity checks for the malloc and calloc routines, a remote attacker could provide...

Amazon Linux AMI : xorg-x11-server (ALAS-2013-234)

A use-after-free flaw was found in the way the X.Org server handled ImageText requests. A malicious, authorized client could use this flaw to crash the X.Org server or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with root privileges. CVE-2013-4396 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text an...

Amazon Linux AMI : postgresql8 (ALAS-2013-244)

An array index error, leading to a heap-based out-of-bounds buffer read flaw, was found in the way PostgreSQL performed certain error processing using enumeration types. An unprivileged database user could issue a specially crafted SQL query that, when processed by the server component of the...

Amazon Linux AMI : rubygems (ALAS-2013-231)

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Gem::Version::ANCHOREDVERSIONPATTERN in lib/rubygems/version.rb in RubyGems before 1.8.23.2, 1.8.24 through 1.8.26, 2.0.x before 2.0.10, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5, as used in Ruby 1.9.0 through 2.0.0p247, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CP...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2013-233)

The dotkill function in kernel/signal.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.9 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted application that makes a 1 tkill or 2 tgkill system call. The udpv6pushpendingframes...

Amazon Linux AMI : puppet (ALAS-2013-219)

Unspecified vulnerability in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.23 and 3.2.x before 3.2.4, and Puppet Enterprise 2.8.x before 2.8.3 and 3.0.x before 3.0.1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Ruby programs from the master via the resourcetype service. NOTE: this vulnerability can only be exploited...

Amazon Linux AMI : nspr (ALAS-2013-216)

It was discovered that NSS leaked timing information when decrypting TLS/SSL and DTLS protocol encrypted records when CBC-mode cipher suites were used. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to retrieve plain text from the encrypted packets by using a TLS/SSL or DTLS server as a padding...

Amazon Linux AMI : subversion (ALAS-2013-221)

The moddavsvn Apache HTTPD server module in Subversion 1.7.0 through 1.7.10 and 1.8.x before 1.8.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service assertion failure or out-of-bounds read via a certain 1 COPY, 2 DELETE, or 3 MOVE request against a revision root. C Tenable Network...

Amazon Linux AMI : gnupg (ALAS-2013-225)

GnuPG before 1.4.14, and Libgcrypt before 1.5.3 as used in GnuPG 2.0.x and possibly other products, allows local users to obtain private RSA keys via a cache side-channel attack involving the L3 cache, aka Flush+Reload. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

Amazon Linux AMI : php54 (ALAS-2013-224)

Session fixation vulnerability in the Sessions subsystem in PHP before 5.5.2 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions by specifying a session ID. The opensslx509parse function in openssl.c in the OpenSSL module in PHP before 5.4.18 and 5.5.x before 5.5.2 does not properly handle a '\0'...

Amazon Linux AMI : ruby19 (ALAS-2013-229)

1 DL and 2 Fiddle in Ruby 1.9 before 1.9.3 patchlevel 426, and 2.0 before 2.0.0 patchlevel 195, do not perform taint checking for native functions, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass intended $SAFE level restrictions. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and packa...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2013-228)

The ipv6createtempaddr function in net/ipv6/addrconf.c in the Linux kernel through 3.8 does not properly handle problems with the generation of IPv6 temporary addresses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service excessive retries and address-generation outage, and consequently...

Amazon Linux AMI : 389-ds-base (ALAS-2013-223)

ns-slapd in 389 Directory Server before 1.3.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service server crash via a crafted Distinguished Name DN in a MOD operation request. 389 Directory Server does not properly restrict access to entity attributes, which allows remote authenticated users to...

Amazon Linux AMI : haproxy (ALAS-2013-215)

HAProxy 1.4 before 1.4.24 and 1.5 before 1.5-dev19, when configured to use hdrip or other 'hdr' functions with a negative occurrence count, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service negative array index usage and crash via an HTTP header with a certain number of values, related to the...

Amazon Linux AMI : php (ALAS-2013-205)

Heap-based buffer overflow in the phpquotprintencode function in ext/standard/quotprint.c in PHP before 5.3.26 and 5.4.x before 5.4.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted argument to the quotedprintableenco...

Amazon Linux AMI : mysql51 (ALAS-2013-186)

This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the MySQL database server. Information about these flaws can be found in the References section. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2013-18...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.6.0-openjdk (ALAS-2012-43)

It was discovered that Java2D did not properly check graphics rendering objects before passing them to the native renderer. Malicious input, or an untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to crash the Java Virtual Machine JVM, or bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2012-0497 It...

Amazon Linux AMI : php (ALAS-2012-41)

It was discovered that the fix for CVE-2011-4885 introduced an uninitialized memory use flaw. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted HTTP request to cause the PHP interpreter to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...