Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: There is a newly discovered variant side-channel attack of Spectre V1 which leverages SWAPGS instructions to bypass KPTI/KVA mitigations. This could lead to a kernel information disclosure. CVE-2019-1125 Affected Packages: kernel Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2...

Critical: thunderbird

Issue Overview: When proxy auto-detection is enabled, if a web server serves a Proxy Auto-Configuration PAC file or if a PAC file is loaded locally, this PAC file can specify that requests to the localhost are to be sent through the proxy to another server. This behavior is disallowed by default...

Important: perl

Issue Overview: Perl has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.CVE-2018-18311 Affected Packages: perl Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2...

Low: setup

Issue Overview: Setup in Amazon Linux 2 added /sbin/nologin and /usr/sbin/nologin to /etc/shells. This violates security assumptions made by pamshells and some daemons which allow access based on a user's shell being listed in /etc/shells. Under some circumstances, users which had their shell...

Medium: xerces-c

Issue Overview: A stack exhaustion flaw was found in the way Xerces-C XML parser handled deeply nested DTDs. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash an application using Xerces-C by tricking it into processing specially crafted data.CVE-2016-4463 Affected Packages: xerces-c Note: Thi...

Important: git

Issue Overview: Git before 2.14.5, allows remote code execution during processing of a recursive "git clone" of a superproject if a .gitmodules file has a URL field beginning with a '-' character.CVE-2018-17456 Affected Packages: git Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core...

Important: qemu-kvm

Issue Overview: A heap buffer overflow issue was found in the way SLiRP networking back-end in QEMU processes fragmented packets. It could occur while reassembling the fragmented datagrams of an incoming packet. A privileged user/process inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: Race condition in the storeintwithrestart function in cpu/mcheck/mce.c: A race condition in the storeintwithrestart function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c in the Linux kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service panic by leveraging root access to write to the...

Low: tomcat7

Issue Overview: Incorrect documentation of CGI Servlet search algorithm may lead to misconfiguration: As part of the fix for bug 61201, the documentation for Apache Tomcat included an updated description of the search algorithm used by the CGI Servlet to identify which script to execute. The upda...

Medium: sssd

Issue Overview: Unsanitized input when searching in local cache database It was found that sssd's sysdbsearchuserbyupnres function did not sanitize requests when querying its local cache and was vulnerable to injection. In a centralized login environment, if a password hash was locally cached for...

Medium: mysql55

Issue Overview: Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL subcomponent: Client programs. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in...

Important: mercurial

Issue Overview: Python debugger accessible to authorized users: A flaw was found in the way "hg serve --stdio" command in Mercurial handled command-line options. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the Mercurial server by using specially crafted...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: The skbs processed by ipcmsgrecv are not guaranteed to be linear e.g. when sending UDP packets over loopback with MSGMORE. Using csumpartial on potentially the whole skb len is dangerous; instead be on the safe side and use skbchecksum. This may lead to an infoleak as the kernel...

Medium: subversion, mod_dav_svn

Issue Overview: It was discovered that Subversion's moddontdothat module and Subversion clients using https:// are vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack caused by exponential XML entity expansion. An authenticated remote attacker can cause denial-of-service conditions on the server using...

Important: bind

Issue Overview: A defect in control channel input handling was discovered which can cause named to exit due to an assertion failure in sexpr.c or alist.c when a malformed packet is sent to named's control channel. If control channel input is accepted from the network limited to localhost by...

Critical: openssl

Issue Overview: During certificate verfification, OpenSSL starting from version 1.0.1n and 1.0.2b will attempt to find an alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain fails. An error in the implementation of this logic can mean that an attacker could cause certain chec...

Medium: clamav

Issue Overview: ClamAV before 0.98.6 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted upack packer file, related to a "heap out of bounds condition." Affected Packages: clamav Issue Correction: Run yum update clamav or yum update --advisory ALAS-2015-486 to update your system. New...

Medium: ruby21

Issue Overview: The upstream patch for CVE-2014-8080 introduced checks against the REXML.entityexpansiontextlimit, but did not add restrictions to limit the number of expansions performed, i.e. checks against the REXML::Document.entityexpansionlimit. As a consequence, even with the patch applied,...

Important: nss

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in the way NSS parsed ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One input from certain RSA signatures. A remote attacker could use this flaw to forge RSA certificates by providing a specially crafted signature to an application using NSS. Affected Packages: nss Issue...

Low: chrony

Issue Overview: It was reported that the cmdmon protocol implemented in chrony was found to be vulnerable to DDoS attacks using traffic amplification. By default, commands are allowed only from localhost, but it's possible to configure chronyd to allow commands from any address. This could allow ...

Important: mod24_wsgi

Issue Overview: It was found that modwsgi did not properly drop privileges if the call to setuid failed. If modwsgi was set up to allow unprivileged users to run WSGI applications, a local user able to run a WSGI application could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system...

Important: nrpe

Issue Overview: 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 ha...

Medium: file

Issue Overview: Fine Free file before 5.17 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service infinite recursion, CPU consumption, and crash via a crafted indirect offset value in the magic of a file. Affected Packages: file Issue Correction: Run yum update file or yum update...

Important: postgresql8

Issue Overview: Multiple stack-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the date/time implementation of PostgreSQL. An authenticated database user could provide a specially crafted date/time value that, when processed, could cause PostgreSQL to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with...

Medium: graphviz-php

Issue Overview: Stack-based buffer overflow in the yyerror function in lib/cgraph/scan.l in Graphviz 2.34.0 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a long line in a dot file. Affected Packages: graphviz-php Issue Correction: Run yum update graphviz-php or yum update --advisory...

Medium: graphviz

Issue Overview: Stack-based buffer overflow in the yyerror function in lib/cgraph/scan.l in Graphviz 2.34.0 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a long line in a dot file. Affected Packages: graphviz Issue Correction: Run yum update graphviz or yum update --advisory ALAS-2014-28...

Low: python-crypto

Issue Overview: The Crypto.Random.atfork function in PyCrypto before 2.6.1 does not properly reseed the pseudo-random number generator PRNG before allowing a child process to access it, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging a race...

Low: mysql51

Issue Overview: Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.1.70 and earlier, 5.5.32 and earlier, and 5.6.12 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Optimizer. Affected Packages: mysql51 Issue Correction: Ru...

Medium: gnupg

Issue Overview: GnuPG 1.4.x, 2.0.x, and 2.1.x treats a key flags subpacket with all bits cleared no usage permitted as if it has all bits set all usage permitted, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended cryptographic protection mechanisms by leveraging the subkey. The compressed...

Low: tomcat7

Issue Overview: 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...

Important: libxml2

Issue Overview: 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 arbitrar...

Medium: postgresql8

Issue Overview: 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 an SQL command. This SQL command might then be executed by a privileged user during later...

Medium: cvs

Issue Overview: A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the CVS client handled responses from HTTP proxies. A malicious HTTP proxy could use this flaw to cause the CVS client to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the CVS client...

Medium: openssl

Issue Overview: It was discovered that the Datagram Transport Layer Security DTLS protocol implementation in OpenSSL leaked timing information when performing certain operations. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to retrieve plain text from the encrypted packets by using a DTLS serve...

Medium: nginx

Issue Overview: Heap-based buffer overflow in compression-pointer processing in core/ngxresolver.c in nginx before 1.0.10 allows remote resolvers to cause a denial of service daemon crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long response. Affected Packages: nginx Issue Correction: Run...

Important: microcode_ctl

Issue Overview: Improper isolation in some IntelR Processors stream cache mechanism may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. CVE-2023-49141 Affected Packages: microcodectl Issue Correction: Run yum update microcodectl or yum update --advisory...

Important: thunderbird

Issue Overview: Insufficient checks when processing graphics shared memory could have led to memory corruption. This could be leveraged by an attacker to perform a sandbox escape. This vulnerability affects Firefox 129, Firefox ESR 115.14, Firefox ESR 128.1, Thunderbird 128.1, and Thunderbird...

Important: bind

Issue Overview: Resolver caches and authoritative zone databases that hold significant numbers of RRs for the same hostname of any RTYPE can suffer from degraded performance as content is being added or updated, and also when handling client queries for this name. This issue affects BIND 9 versio...

Important: java-11-amazon-corretto

Issue Overview: Vulnerability in the Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE component: Hotspot. Supported versions that are affected are Oracle Java SE: 8u411, 8u411-perf, 11.0.23, 17.0.11, 21.0.3, 22.0.1; Oracle GraalVM for JDK: 17.0.1...

Medium: freerdp

Issue Overview: FreeRDP is a set of free and open source remote desktop protocol library and clients. In affected versions an integer overflow in freerdpbitmapplanarcontextreset leads to heap-buffer overflow. This affects FreeRDP based clients. FreeRDP based server implementations and proxy are n...

Important: ghostscript

Issue Overview: Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.2 mishandles permission validation for pipe devices with the %pipe% prefix or the | pipe character prefix. CVE-2023-36664 Affected Packages: ghostscript Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit this FAQ sectio...

Important: httpd24

Issue Overview: HTTP/2 incoming headers exceeding the limit are temporarily buffered in nghttp2 in order to generate an informative HTTP 413 response. If a client does not stop sending headers, this leads to memory exhaustion. CVE-2024-27316 Affected Packages: httpd24 Issue Correction: Run yum...

Important: glib2

Issue Overview: GNOME GLib before 2.65.3 has an integer overflow, that might lead to an out-of-bounds write, in goptiongroupaddentries. NOTE: the vendor's position is "Realistically this is not a security issue. The standard pattern is for callers to provide a static list of option entries in a...

Important: rust

Issue Overview: libgit2 is a portable C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a linkable library with a solid API, allowing to build Git functionality into your application. Using well-crafted inputs to gitrevparsesingle can cause the function to enter an infinite loop, potentially...

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: 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: kernel

Issue Overview: A flaw in the kernel Xen event handler can cause a deadlock with Xen console handling in unprivileged Xen guests. CVE-2023-34324 A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel ipv4 stack. The socket buffer skb was assumed to be associated with a device before callin...

Medium: libX11

Issue Overview: libX11: out-of-bounds memory access in XkbReadKeySyms CVE-2023-43785 libX11: integer overflow in XCreateImage leading to a heap overflow. CVE-2023-43787 Affected Packages: libX11 Issue Correction: Run yum update libX11 or yum update --advisory ALAS-2023-1859 to update your system...

Low: libarchive

Issue Overview: No CVE associated with this advisory Affected Packages: libarchive 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. Issue Correction: Run yum update libarchive or yum upda...

Important: libssh2

Issue Overview: An issue was discovered in function libssh2packetadd in libssh2 1.10.0 allows attackers to access out of bounds memory. CVE-2020-22218 Affected Packages: libssh2 Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference...