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High ALAS2-2024-2418 1 CVE

Important: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jan 19, 2024 · Updated Jan 22, 2024

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-6606: An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found in smbCalcSize in fs/smb/client/netmisc.c in the Linux Kernel. This issue could allow a local attacker to crash the system or leak internal kernel information.

Fixed packages 14

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel 0:4.14.336-253.554.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo 0:4.14.336-253.554.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 0:4.14.336-253.554.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.14.336-253.554.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-devel 0:4.14.336-253.554.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-headers 0:4.14.336-253.554.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-livepatch-4.14.336-253.554 0:1.0-0.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools 0:4.14.336-253.554.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:4.14.336-253.554.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-devel 0:4.14.336-253.554.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf 0:4.14.336-253.554.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.336-253.554.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf 0:4.14.336-253.554.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.336-253.554.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-6606.html