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High ALAS2-2020-1399 2 CVEs

Important: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Mar 2, 2020 · Updated Mar 6, 2020

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-20096: In the Linux kernel before 5.1, there is a memory leak in __feat_register_sp() in net/dccp/feat.c, which may cause denial of service, aka CID-1d3ff0950e2b. 1791959: CVE-2019-20096 kernel: memory leak in __feat_register_sp() in net/dccp/feat.c CVE-2019-15918: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.10. SMB2_negotiate in fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c has an out-of-bounds read because data structures are incompletely updated after a change from smb30 to smb21. 1760550: CVE-2019-15918 kernel: out-of-bounds read in fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c

Fixed packages 14

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel 0:4.14.171-136.231.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo 0:4.14.171-136.231.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 0:4.14.171-136.231.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.14.171-136.231.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-devel 0:4.14.171-136.231.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-headers 0:4.14.171-136.231.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-livepatch-4.14.171-136.231 0:1.0-0.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools 0:4.14.171-136.231.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:4.14.171-136.231.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-devel 0:4.14.171-136.231.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf 0:4.14.171-136.231.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.171-136.231.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf 0:4.14.171-136.231.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.171-136.231.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-15918.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-20096.html