Amazon Linux AMI : php-pecl-apc (ALAS-2012-96)

A cross-site scripting XSS flaw was found in the 'apc.php' script, which provides a detailed analysis of the internal workings of APC and is shipped as part of the APC extension documentation. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to conduct a cross-site scripting attack. CVE-2010-3294 C...

Amazon Linux AMI : gdb (ALAS-2013-159)

GDB tried to auto-load certain files such as GDB scripts, Python scripts, and a thread debugging library from the current working directory when debugging programs. This could result in the execution of arbitrary code with the user's privileges when GDB was run in a directory that has untrusted...

Amazon Linux AMI : python26 (ALAS-2012-98)

A denial of service flaw was found in the implementation of associative arrays dictionaries in Python. An attacker able to supply a large number of inputs to a Python application such as HTTP POST request parameters sent to a web application that are used as keys when inserting data into an array...

Amazon Linux AMI : axis (ALAS-2013-164)

Apache Axis did not verify that the server hostname matched the domain name in the subject's Common Name CN or subjectAltName field in X.509 certificates. This could allow a man-in-the-middle attacker to spoof an SSL server if they had a certificate that was valid for any domain name. CVE-2012-57...

Amazon Linux AMI : busybox (ALAS-2012-103)

A buffer underflow flaw was found in the way the uncompress utility of BusyBox expanded certain archive files compressed using Lempel-Ziv compression. If a user were tricked into expanding a specially crafted archive file with uncompress, it could cause BusyBox to crash or, potentially, execute...

Amazon Linux AMI : tomcat7 (ALAS-2013-191)

java/org/apache/catalina/core/AsyncContextImpl.java in Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.40 does not properly handle the throwing of a RuntimeException in an AsyncListener in an application, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive request information intended for other application...

Amazon Linux AMI : libxslt (ALAS-2012-123)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxslt applied templates to nodes selected by certain namespaces. An attacker could use this flaw to create a malicious XSL file that, when used by an application linked against libxslt to perform an XSL transformation, could cause the...

Amazon Linux AMI : cacti (ALAS-2012-32)

The release notes for Cacti 0.8.7i indicate that two security vulnerabilities were fixed, though no corresponding CVE has been issued. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2012-32...

Amazon Linux AMI : nss (ALAS-2012-108)

A flaw was found in the way the ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One decoder in NSS handled zero length items. This flaw could cause the decoder to incorrectly skip or replace certain items with a default value, or could cause an application to crash if, for example, it received a specially crafted...

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...

Amazon Linux AMI : postgresql9 (ALAS-2013-178)

Argument injection vulnerability in PostgreSQL 9.2.x before 9.2.4, 9.1.x before 9.1.9, and 9.0.x before 9.0.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service file corruption, and allows remote authenticated users to modify configuration settings and execute arbitrary code, via a connection...

Amazon Linux AMI : ruby19 (ALAS-2013-195)

lib/rexml/text.rb in the REXML parser in Ruby before 1.9.3-p392 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption and crash via crafted text nodes in an XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion XEE attack. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Amazon Linux AMI : httpd (ALAS-2011-09)

The MITRE CVE database describes these CVEs as : The modproxy module in the Apache HTTP Server 1.3.x through 1.3.42, 2.0.x through 2.0.64, and 2.2.x through 2.2.21 does not properly interact with use of 1 RewriteRule and 2 ProxyPassMatch pattern matches for configuration of a reverse proxy, which...

Amazon Linux AMI : libxml2 (ALAS-2012-134)

Multiple integer overflow flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in the way libxml2 handled documents that enable entity expansion. A remote attacker could provide a large, specially crafted XML file that, when opened in an application linked against libxml2, would cause the...

Amazon Linux AMI : ghostscript (ALAS-2012-42)

An integer overflow flaw was found in Ghostscript's TrueType bytecode interpreter. An attacker could create a specially crafted PostScript or PDF file that, when interpreted, could cause Ghostscript to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2009-3743 It was found that Ghostscript alwa...

Amazon Linux AMI : dhcp (ALAS-2013-157)

A flaw was found in the way the dhcpd daemon handled the expiration time of IPv6 leases. If dhcpd's configuration was changed to reduce the default IPv6 lease time, lease renewal requests for previously assigned leases could cause dhcpd to crash. CVE-2012-3955 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Amazon Linux AMI : libxml2 (ALAS-2012-36)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 decoded entity references with long names. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when opened in an application linked against libxml2, would cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrar...

Amazon Linux AMI : openldap (ALAS-2012-101)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the OpenLDAP server daemon slapd processed certain search queries requesting only attributes and no values. In certain configurations, a remote attacker could issue a specially crafted LDAP search query that, when processed by slapd, would cause slapd...

Amazon Linux AMI : libtiff (ALAS-2012-147)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libtiff processed certain TIFF images using the Pixar Log Format encoding. An attacker could create a specially crafted TIFF file that, when opened, could cause an application using libtiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with t...

Amazon Linux AMI : systemtap (ALAS-2012-54)

An invalid pointer read flaw was found in the way SystemTap handled malformed debugging information in DWARF format. When SystemTap unprivileged mode was enabled, an unprivileged user in the stapusr group could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, read arbitrary kernel memory...