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High ALAS2-2020-1392 3 CVEs

Important: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Feb 5, 2020 · Updated May 9, 2024

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-19965: In the Linux kernel through 5.4.6, there is a NULL pointer dereference in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_discover.c because of mishandling of port disconnection during discovery, related to a PHY down race condition, aka CID-f70267f379b5. CVE-2019-19332: An out-of-bounds memory write issue was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor handled the 'KVM_GET_EMULATED_CPUID' ioctl(2) request to get CPUID features emulated by the KVM hypervisor. A user or process able to access the '/dev/kvm' device could use this flaw to crash the system, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2019-19062: A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The crypto_report function mishandles resource cleanup on error. A local attacker able to induce the error conditions could use this flaw to crash the system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Fixed packages 14

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel 0:4.14.165-131.185.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo 0:4.14.165-131.185.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 0:4.14.165-131.185.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.14.165-131.185.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-devel 0:4.14.165-131.185.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-headers 0:4.14.165-131.185.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-livepatch-4.14.165-131.185 0:1.0-0.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools 0:4.14.165-131.185.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:4.14.165-131.185.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-devel 0:4.14.165-131.185.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf 0:4.14.165-131.185.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.165-131.185.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf 0:4.14.165-131.185.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.165-131.185.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-19062.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-19332.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-19965.html