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Medium ALAS2-2018-1046 2 CVEs

Moderate: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jul 23, 2018 · Updated Apr 8, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-9516: A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in the hid_debug_events_read() function in the drivers/hid/hid-debug.c file. A lack of the certain checks may allow a privileged user ("root") to achieve an out-of-bounds write and thus receiving user space buffer corruption. CVE-2018-11412: The fs/ext4/inline.c:ext4_read_inline_data() function in the Linux kernel performs a memcpy with an untrusted length value in certain circumstances involving a crafted filesystem that stores the system.data extended attribute value in a dedicated inode. The unbound copy can cause memory corruption or possible privilege escalation.

Fixed packages 12

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel 0:4.14.55-68.37.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo 0:4.14.55-68.37.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.14.55-68.37.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-devel 0:4.14.55-68.37.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-headers 0:4.14.55-68.37.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools 0:4.14.55-68.37.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:4.14.55-68.37.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-devel 0:4.14.55-68.37.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf 0:4.14.55-68.37.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.55-68.37.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf 0:4.14.55-68.37.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.55-68.37.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-11412.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-9516.html