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High ALAS2-2022-1774 4 CVEs

Important: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Apr 18, 2022 · Updated Oct 2, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-48924: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal: int340x: fix memory leak in int3400_notify() CVE-2022-28356: In the Linux kernel before 5.17.1, a refcount leak bug was found in net/llc/af_llc.c. CVE-2022-27666: A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in IPsec ESP transformation code in net/ipv4/esp4.c and net/ipv6/esp6.c. This flaw allows a local attacker with a normal user privilege to overwrite kernel heap objects and may cause a local privilege escalation threat. CVE-2022-26490: A buffer overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel's NFC protocol functionality. This flaw allows a local user to crash or escalate their privileges on the system.

Fixed packages 14

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel 0:4.14.275-207.503.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo 0:4.14.275-207.503.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 0:4.14.275-207.503.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.14.275-207.503.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-devel 0:4.14.275-207.503.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-headers 0:4.14.275-207.503.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-livepatch-4.14.275-207.503 0:1.0-0.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools 0:4.14.275-207.503.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:4.14.275-207.503.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-devel 0:4.14.275-207.503.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf 0:4.14.275-207.503.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.275-207.503.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf 0:4.14.275-207.503.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.275-207.503.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 4

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-26490.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-27666.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-28356.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-48924.html