Medium: curl

Issue Overview: This build resolves the following issues: CVE-2016-8615: Cookie injection for other servers CVE-2016-8616: Case insensitive password comparison CVE-2016-8617: Out-of-bounds write via unchecked multiplication CVE-2016-8618: Double-free in curlmaprintf CVE-2016-8619: Double-free in...

Important: policycoreutils

Issue Overview: It was found that the sandbox tool provided in policycoreutils was vulnerable to a TIOCSTI ioctl attack. A specially crafted program executed via the sandbox command could use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands in the context of the parent bash, escaping the sandbox. Affected...

Important: tomcat6, tomcat7, tomcat8

Issue Overview: It was discovered that the Tomcat packages installed certain configuration files read by the Tomcat initialization script as writeable to the tomcat group. A member of the group or a malicious web application deployed on Tomcat could use this flaw to escalate their privileges...

Critical: java-1.8.0-openjdk

Issue Overview: It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK did not properly check arguments of the System.arraycopy function in certain cases. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to corrupt virtual machine's memory and completely bypass Java sandbox...

Important: python-twisted-web

Issue Overview: It was discovered that python-twisted-web used the value of the Proxy header from HTTP requests to initialize the HTTPPROXY environment variable for CGI scripts, which in turn was incorrectly used by certain HTTP client implementations to configure the proxy for outgoing HTTP...

Important: bind

Issue Overview: CVE-2016-2848 bind: assertion failure triggered by a packet with malformed options A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND handled packets with malformed options. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a...

Critical: kernel

Issue Overview: A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write COW breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase their...

Medium: openssl

Issue Overview: It was discovered that OpenSSL did not always use constant time operations when computing Digital Signature Algorithm DSA signatures. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to obtain a private DSA key belonging to another user or service running on the same system...

Important: mysql55, mysql56

Issue Overview: It was discovered that the MySQL logging functionality allowed writing to MySQL configuration files. An administrative database user, or a database user with FILE privileges, could possibly use this flaw to run arbitrary commands with root privileges on the system running the...

Medium: php70

Issue Overview: ext/mysqlnd/mysqlndwireprotocol.c in PHP before 5.6.26 and 7.x before 7.0.11 does not verify that a BIT field has the UNSIGNEDFLAG flag, which allows remote MySQL servers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer overflow or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted...

Medium: php56

Issue Overview: ext/standard/varunserializer.re in PHP before 5.6.26 mishandles object-deserialization failures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact via an unserialize call that references a partially constructed...

Medium: GraphicsMagick

Issue Overview: A possible heap overflow was discovered in the EscapeParenthesis function CVE-2016-7447. Various issues were found in the processing of SVG files in GraphicsMagick CVE-2016-7446. The TIFF reader had a bug pertaining to use of TIFFGetField when a 'count' value is returned. The bug...

Important: bind

Issue Overview: A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND constructed a response to a query that met certain criteria. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS request packet. Affected Packages: bind Issue...

Important: libarchive

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in the way libarchive handled hardlink archive entries of non-zero size. Combined with flaws in libarchive's file system sandboxing, this issue could cause an application using libarchive to overwrite arbitrary files with arbitrary data from the archive...

Low: curl

Issue Overview: After testing original CVE-2016-5420 patch, it was discovered that libcurl built on top of NSS Network Security Services still incorrectly re-uses client certificates if a certificate from file is used for one TLS connection but no certificate is set for a subsequent TLS connectio...

Medium: openvpn

Issue Overview: Ciphers with 64-bit block sizes used in CBC mode were found to be vulnerable to a birthday attack when key renegotiation doesn't happen frequently or at all in long running connections. The blowfish cipher as used in OpenVPN by default is vulnerable to this attack, allowing a remo...

Important: openssl

Issue Overview: A memory leak flaw was found in the way OpenSSL handled TLS status request extension data during session renegotiation. A remote attacker could cause a TLS server using OpenSSL to consume an excessive amount of memory and, possibly, exit unexpectedly after exhausting all available...

Medium: bind

Issue Overview: It was found that the lightweight resolver could crash due to an error when asked to resolve a query name which, when combined with a search list entry, exceeds the maximum allowable length. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash lwresd or named when using the "lwres"...

Important: lighttpd

Issue Overview: It was discovered that lighttpd class did not properly protect against the HTTPPROXY variable name clash in a CGI context. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to redirect HTTP requests performed by a CGI script to an attacker-controlled proxy via a malicious HTTP reques...

Medium: postgresql92, postgresql93, postgresql94

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in the way PostgreSQL server handled certain SQL statements containing CASE/WHEN commands. A remote, authenticated attacker could use a specially crafted SQL statement to cause PostgreSQL to crash or disclose a few bytes of server memory or possibly execute...

Medium: libgcrypt, gnupg

Issue Overview: A design flaw was found in the libgcrypt PRNG Pseudo-Random Number Generator. An attacker who can obtain the first 580 bytes of the PRNG output can trivially predict the following 20 bytes. Affected Packages: libgcrypt, gnupg Issue Correction: Run yum update libgcrypt or yum updat...

Important: java-1.6.0-openjdk

Issue Overview: An insufficient bytecode verification flaw was discovered in the Hotspot component in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to completely bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2016-3606 Multiple denial of service flaws were found in the JAXP componen...

Medium: collectd

Issue Overview: A heap-based buffer overflow in the parsepacket function in network.c in collectd allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted network packet. Affected Packages: collectd Issue Correction: Run yum update collect...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: A use after free vulnerability was found in tcpxmitretransmitqueue and other tcp functions. Affected Packages: kernel Issue Correction: Run yum update kernel or yum update --advisory ALAS-2016-740 to update your system. New Packages: i686: kernel-devel-4.4.19-29.55.amzn1.i686...

Medium: python34, python27, python26

Issue Overview: It was discovered that the Python CGIHandler class did not properly protect against the HTTPPROXY variable name clash in a CGI context. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to redirect HTTP requests performed by a Python CGI script to an attacker-controlled proxy via a...

Medium: samba

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in the way Samba initiated signed DCE/RPC connections. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to downgrade the connection to not use signing and therefore impersonate the server. Affected Packages: samba Issue Correction: Run yum update samba or yum upda...

Medium: curl

Issue Overview: curl and libcurl before 7.50.1 do not prevent TLS session resumption when the client certificate has changed, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions by resuming a session. CVE-2016-5419 curl and libcurl before 7.50.1 do not check the client certificate when...

Medium: tomcat7, tomcat8

Issue Overview: A denial of service vulnerability was identified in Commons FileUpload that occurred when the length of the multipart boundary was just below the size of the buffer 4096 bytes used to read the uploaded file if the boundary was the typical tens of bytes long. Affected Packages:...

Important: libtiff

Issue Overview: Multiple flaws have been discovered in libtiff. A remote attacker could exploit these flaws to cause a crash or memory corruption and, possibly, execute arbitrary code by tricking an application linked against libtiff into processing specially crafted files. CVE-2014-9655,...

Important: mysql55

Issue Overview: It was found that the MariaDB client library did not properly check host names against server identities noted in the X.509 certificates when establishing secure connections using TLS/SSL. A man-in-the-middle attacker could possibly use this flaw to impersonate a server to a clien...

Important: mysql56

Issue Overview: Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL 5.6.30 and earlier allows remote administrators to affect availability via vectors related to Server: RBR. CVE-2016-5440 Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL 5.6.30 and earlier allows remote administrators to affect availability via...

Important: compat-libtiff3

Issue Overview: Multiple flaws have been discovered in libtiff. A remote attacker could exploit these flaws to cause a crash or memory corruption and, possibly, execute arbitrary code by tricking an application linked against libtiff into processing specially crafted files. CVE-2014-9655,...

Medium: golang

Issue Overview: An input-validation flaw was discovered in the Go programming language built in CGI implementation, which set the environment variable "HTTPPROXY" using the incoming "Proxy" HTTP-request header. The environment variable "HTTPPROXY" is used by numerous web clients, including Go's...

Medium: squid

Issue Overview: A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Squid cachemgr.cgi utility processed remotely relayed Squid input. When the CGI interface utility is used, a remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-4051 It was found that the fix for...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: It was found that nfsd is missing permissions check when setting ACL on files, this may allow a local users to gain access to any file by setting a crafted ACL. CVE-2016-1237 A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's keyring handling code, where in keyrejectandlink an uninitialised...

Medium: php55, php56

Issue Overview: A stack consumption vulnerability in GD in PHP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted imagefilltoborder call. CVE-2015-8874 An integer overflow, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow was found in the imagecreatefromgd2 function of PHP's gd extension. ...

Medium: ntp

Issue Overview: It was discovered that ntpq and ntpdc disclosed the origin timestamp to unauthenticated clients, which could permit such clients to forge the server's replies. CVE-2015-8139 The processpacket function in ntpproto.c in ntpd in NTP 4.x before 4.2.8p8 allows remote attackers to cause...

Important: java-1.7.0-openjdk

Issue Overview: Multiple flaws were discovered in the Hotspot and Libraries components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to completely bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2016-3606, CVE-2016-3598, CVE-2016-3610 Multiple denial of service flaws were found ...

Critical: java-1.8.0-openjdk

Issue Overview: Multiple flaws were discovered in the Hotspot and Libraries components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to completely bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2016-3606, CVE-2016-3587, CVE-2016-3598, CVE-2016-3610 Multiple denial of service...

Important: httpd24, httpd

Issue Overview: It was discovered that httpd used the value of the Proxy header from HTTP requests to initialize the HTTPPROXY environment variable for CGI scripts, which in turn was incorrectly used by certain HTTP client implementations to configure the proxy for outgoing HTTP requests. A remot...

Medium: tomcat6, tomcat7, tomcat8

Issue Overview: Tomcat's CGI support used the value of the Proxy header from HTTP requests to initialize the HTTPPROXY environment variable for CGI scripts, which in turn was incorrectly used by certain HTTP client implementations to configure the proxy for outgoing HTTP requests. A remote attack...

Medium: python26, python27, python34

Issue Overview: It was found that Python's httplib library used urllib, urllib2 and others did not properly check HTTP header input in HTTPConnection.putheader. An attacker could use this flow to inject additional headers in a Python application that allows user provided header name or values...

Important: varnish

Issue Overview: Varnish 3.x before 3.0.7, when used in certain stacked installations, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via a header line terminated by a \r carriage return character in conjunction with multiple Content-Length...

Medium: wget

Issue Overview: GNU wget before 1.18 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP to a crafted FTP resource. CVE-2016-4971 Affected Packages: wget Issue Correction: Run yum update wget or yum update --advisory ALAS-2016-720 to update your system. New...

Important: libxml2

Issue Overview: A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 parsed certain crafted XML input. 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 execute arbitrary code...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: A flaw was discovered in processing setsockopt for 32 bit processes on 64 bit systems. This flaw will allow attackers to alter arbitary kernel memory when unloading a kernel module. This action is usually restricted to root-priveledged users but can also be leveraged if the kernel...

Important: ImageMagick

Issue Overview: It was discovered that ImageMagick did not properly sanitize certain input before using it to invoke processes. A remote attacker could create a specially crafted image that, when processed by an application using ImageMagick or an unsuspecting user using the ImageMagick utilities...

Important: GraphicsMagick

Issue Overview: It was discovered that GraphicsMagick did not properly sanitize certain input before using it to invoke processes. A remote attacker could create a specially crafted image that, when processed by an application using GraphicsMagick or an unsuspecting user using the GraphicsMagick...

Low: mod24_nss

Issue Overview: It was reported that +CIPHER operator in OpenSSL changes the order of a cipher. Instead of returning an error as NSS does not support cipher ordering, it returned the result of processing up to that point, which could result in requested ciphers not being enabled. Affected Package...

Medium: squid

Issue Overview: A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Squid cachemgr.cgi utility processed remotely relayed Squid input. When the CGI interface utility is used, a remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-4051 Buffer overflow and input validation...