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High ALAS2-2018-971 1 CVE

Important: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Mar 16, 2018 · Updated Mar 16, 2018

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-1068: A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of 32-bit syscall interface for bridging. This allowed a privileged user to arbitrarily write to a limited range of kernel memory. 1552048: CVE-2018-1068 kernel: Out-of-bounds write via userland offsets in ebt_entry struct in netfilter/ebtables.c

Fixed packages 13

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel 0:4.9.85-47.59.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo 0:4.9.85-47.59.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.9.85-47.59.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-devel 0:4.9.85-47.59.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-doc 0:4.9.85-47.59.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-headers 0:4.9.85-47.59.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools 0:4.9.85-47.59.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:4.9.85-47.59.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-devel 0:4.9.85-47.59.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf 0:4.9.85-47.59.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf-debuginfo 0:4.9.85-47.59.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf 0:4.9.85-47.59.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf-debuginfo 0:4.9.85-47.59.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-1068.html