Important: cpio

Issue Overview: cpio 2.11, when using the --no-absolute-filenames option, allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an archive. CVE-2015-1197 Affected Packages: cpio Issue Correction: Run yum update cpio or yum update --advisory ALAS-2024-1925 to update your...

Medium: libuv

Issue Overview: libuv is a multi-platform support library with a focus on asynchronous I/O. The uvgetaddrinfo function in src/unix/getaddrinfo.c and its windows counterpart src/win/getaddrinfo.c, truncates hostnames to 256 characters before calling getaddrinfo. This behavior can be exploited to...

Medium: xerces-c

Issue Overview: Apache issued this CVE to indicate the correct versions of xerces-c, which included the fix for CVE-2018-1311. See the older CVE page for fix status. CVE-2024-23807 Affected Packages: xerces-c Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit this FAQ...

Important: thunderbird

Issue Overview: When storing and re-accessing data on a networking channel, the length of buffers may have been confused, resulting in an out-of-bounds memory read. This vulnerability affects Firefox 123, Firefox ESR 115.8, and Thunderbird 115.8. CVE-2024-1546 Through a series of API calls and...

Important: shim

Issue Overview: A remote code execution vulnerability was found in Shim. The Shim boot support trusts attacker-controlled values when parsing an HTTP response. This flaw allows an attacker to craft a specific malicious HTTP request, leading to a completely controlled out-of-bounds write primitive...

Medium: ncurses

Issue Overview: ncurses 6.4-20230610 has a NULL pointer dereference in tgetstr in tinfo/libtermcap.c. CVE-2023-45918 Affected Packages: ncurses Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras...

Important: less

Issue Overview: closealtfile in filename.c in less before 606 omits shellquote calls for LESSCLOSE. CVE-2022-48624 Affected Packages: less Issue Correction: Run yum update less or yum update --advisory ALAS-2024-1924 to update your system. New Packages: i686: less-436-13.13.amzn1.i686 ...

Important: less

Issue Overview: closealtfile in filename.c in less before 606 omits shellquote calls for LESSCLOSE. CVE-2022-48624 Affected Packages: less Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories...

WordPress WP Fastest Cache 1.2.2 SQL Injection

Exploit Title: Unauthenticated SQL Injection in WP Fastest Cache 1.2.2 Date: 14.11.2023 Exploit Author: Meryem Taşkın Vendor Homepage: https://www.wpfastestcache.com/ Software Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fastest-cache/ Version: WP Fastest Cache 1.2.2 Tested on: WP Fastest Cache 1.2.2...

Medium: jtidy

Issue Overview: An issue was discovered jtidy thru r938 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via crafted object that uses cyclic dependencies. CVE-2023-34623 Affected Packages: jtidy Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Vis...

Medium: nss-softokn

Issue Overview: Multiple NSS NIST curves were susceptible to a side-channel attack known as "Minerva". This attack could potentially allow an attacker to recover the private key. This vulnerability affects Firefox 121. CVE-2023-6135 Affected Packages: nss-softokn Note: This advisory is applicable...

Important: postgresql

Issue Overview: This enabled an attacker having database-level CREATE privilege to execute arbitrary code as the bootstrap superuser. Database owners have that right by default, and explicit grants may extend it to other users. CVE-2023-2454 While CVE-2016-2193 fixed most interaction between row...

Important: nss-util

Issue Overview: Empty or malformed p256-ECDH public keys may trigger a segmentation fault due values being improperly sanitized before being copied into memory and used. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR 60.8, Firefox 68, and Thunderbird 60.8. CVE-2019-11729 A heap-based buffer overflow was...

Important: amazon-ssm-agent

Issue Overview: The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service server resource consumption because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023. CVE-2023-39325 A malicious HTTP sender can use chunk extensions to cause a receiver...

MITRE: CVE-2023-50387 DNSSEC verification complexity can be exploited to exhaust CPU resources and stall DNS resolvers

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Combined Security Practices Changing the Game for Risk Management

A significant challenge within cyber security at present is that there are a lot of risk management platforms available in the market, but only some deal with cyber risks in a very good way. The majority will shout alerts at the customer as and when they become apparent and cause great stress in...

Important: python-pillow

Issue Overview: Pillow through 10.1.0 allows PIL.ImageMath.eval Arbitrary Code Execution via the environment parameter, a different vulnerability than CVE-2022-22817 which was about the expression parameter. CVE-2023-50447 Affected Packages: python-pillow Note: This advisory is applicable to Amaz...

Important: wireshark

Issue Overview: IEEE 1609.2 dissector crash in Wireshark 4.2.0, 4.0.0 to 4.0.11, and 3.6.0 to 3.6.19 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file CVE-2024-0209 Affected Packages: wireshark Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit this...

Important: nss

Issue Overview: A vulnerability was found in SQLite SQLite3 up to 3.43.0 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function sessionReadRecord of the file ext/session/sqlite3session.c of the component make alltest Handler. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. It is...

Important: webkitgtk4

Issue Overview: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in Safari 17.2, iOS 17.2 and iPadOS 17.2, tvOS 17.2, watchOS 10.2, macOS Sonoma 14.2. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. CVE-2023-42950 A type...