Amazon Linux AMI : openswan (ALAS-2011-06)

When an ISAKMP message with an invalid KEYLENGTH attribute is received, the error handling function crashes on a NULL pointer dereference. Openswan automatically restarts the pluto IKE daemon but all ISAKMP state is lost. This vulnerability does NOT allow an attacker access to the system. This ca...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.6.0-openjdk (ALAS-2012-136) (ROBOT)

Multiple improper permission check issues were discovered in the Beans, Swing, and JMX components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2012-5086 , CVE-2012-5084 , CVE-2012-5089 Multiple improper permission check issues...

Amazon Linux AMI : libxml2 (ALAS-2012-143)

A heap-based buffer underflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 decoded certain entities. 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 arbitrary code with the...

Amazon Linux AMI : php (ALAS-2012-77)

A flaw was found in the way the php-cgi executable processed command line arguments when running in CGI mode. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to a PHP script that would result in the query string being parsed by php-cgi as command line options and arguments. This could le...

Amazon Linux AMI : dhcp (ALAS-2012-115)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the dhcpd daemon handled zero-length client identifiers. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially crafted request to dhcpd, possibly causing it to enter an infinite loop and consume an excessive amount of CPU time. CVE-2012-3571 Two...

Amazon Linux AMI : mysql55 (ALAS-2013-187)

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-1.7.0-openjdk (ALAS-2013-162)

Multiple improper permission check issues were discovered in the JMX and Libraries components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2013-1486 , CVE-2013-1484 An improper permission check issue was discovered in the...

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 : rpm (ALAS-2012-61)

Multiple flaws were found in the way RPM parsed package file headers. An attacker could create a specially crafted RPM package that, when its package header was accessed, or during package signature verification, could cause an application using the RPM library such as the rpm command line tool, ...

Amazon Linux AMI : perl (ALAS-2011-19)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Perl decoded Unicode strings. An attacker could create a malicious Unicode string that, when decoded by a Perl program, would cause the program to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the...

Amazon Linux AMI : openssl (ALAS-2013-171)

It was discovered that OpenSSL 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 paddi...

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 : 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 : nss (ALAS-2011-21)

It was found that the Malaysia-based Digicert Sdn. Bhd. subordinate Certificate Authority CA issued HTTPS certificates with weak keys. This update renders any HTTPS certificates signed by that CA as untrusted. This covers all uses of the certificates, including SSL, S/MIME, and code signing. Note...

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 : bind (ALAS-2013-158)

A flaw was found in the DNS64 implementation in BIND when using Response Policy Zones RPZ. If a remote attacker sent a specially crafted query to a named server that is using RPZ rewrite rules, named could exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure. Note that DNS64 support is not enabled by...

Amazon Linux AMI : libpng (ALAS-2012-68)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libpng processed tEXt chunks in PNG image files. An attacker could create a specially crafted PNG image file that, when opened, could cause an application using libpng to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the...

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 : postgresql8 (ALAS-2012-82)

The pgdump utility inserted object names literally into comments in the SQL script it produces. An unprivileged database user could create an object whose name includes a newline followed by a SQL command. This SQL command might then be executed by a privileged user during later restore of the...