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Low ALAS2-2019-1278 1 CVE

Low: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Sep 13, 2019 · Updated Sep 19, 2019

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 result in receiving userspace buffer overflow and an out-of-bounds write or to the infinite loop. 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. 1631036: CVE-2018-9516 kernel: HID: debug: Buffer overflow in hid_debug_events_read() in drivers/hid/hid-debug.c

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 1

References

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