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Medium ALAS2-2021-1675 1 CVE

Moderate: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jul 1, 2021 · Updated Jul 1, 2021

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-33200: A flaw was found in kernel/bpf/verifier.c in BPF in the Linux kernel. An incorrect limit is enforced for pointer arithmetic operations which can be abused to perform out-of-bounds reads and writes in kernel memory, leading to local privilege escalation. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability. 1965458: CVE-2021-33200 kernel: out-of-bounds reads and writes due to enforcing incorrect limits for pointer arithmetic operations by BPF verifier

Fixed packages 14

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel 0:4.14.232-177.418.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo 0:4.14.232-177.418.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 0:4.14.232-177.418.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.14.232-177.418.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-devel 0:4.14.232-177.418.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-headers 0:4.14.232-177.418.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-livepatch-4.14.232-177.418 0:1.0-0.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools 0:4.14.232-177.418.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:4.14.232-177.418.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-devel 0:4.14.232-177.418.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf 0:4.14.232-177.418.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.232-177.418.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf 0:4.14.232-177.418.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.232-177.418.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-33200.html