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Amazon Linux AMI : foomatic (ALAS-2016-690)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 90632

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that foomatic-rip failed to remove all shell special characters from inputs used to construct command lines for external programs run by the filter. An attacker could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2015-8560)

It was discovered that the unhtmlify() function of foomatic-rip did not correctly calculate buffer sizes, possibly leading to a heap-based memory corruption. A malicious attacker could exploit this flaw to cause foomatic-rip to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2010-5325)

Solution

Run 'yum update foomatic' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2016-690.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 90632

File Name: ala_ALAS-2016-690.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/22/2016

Updated: 4/18/2018

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:foomatic, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:foomatic-debuginfo, cpe:/o:amazon:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 4/21/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-5325, CVE-2015-8560

ALAS: 2016-690