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Medium ALAS2-2019-1145 2 CVEs

Moderate: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jan 7, 2019 · Updated Jan 9, 2019

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-20169: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.19.9. The USB subsystem mishandles size checks during the reading of an extra descriptor, related to __usb_get_extra_descriptor in drivers/usb/core/usb.c. 1660385: CVE-2018-20169 kernel: Mishandled size checks during the reading of an extra descriptor CVE-2018-14625: A flaw was found where an attacker may be able to have an uncontrolled read to kernel-memory from within a vm guest. A race condition between connect() and close() function may allow an attacker using the AF_VSOCK protocol to gather a 4 byte information leak or possibly impersonate AF_VSOCK messages destined to other clients or leak kernel memory. 1619846: CVE-2018-14625 kernel: use-after-free Read in vhost_transport_send_pkt

Fixed packages 13

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel 0:4.14.88-88.76.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo 0:4.14.88-88.76.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 0:4.14.88-88.76.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.14.88-88.76.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-devel 0:4.14.88-88.76.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-headers 0:4.14.88-88.76.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools 0:4.14.88-88.76.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:4.14.88-88.76.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-devel 0:4.14.88-88.76.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf 0:4.14.88-88.76.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.88-88.76.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf 0:4.14.88-88.76.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.88-88.76.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-14625.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-20169.html