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High ALAS2-2024-2588 2 CVEs

Important: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jul 3, 2024 · Updated Feb 8, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-53998: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwrng: virtio - Fix race on data_avail and actual data CVE-2023-1077: kernel: Type confusion in pick_next_rt_entity(), which can result in memory corruption.

Fixed packages 14

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel 0:4.14.344-262.563.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo 0:4.14.344-262.563.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 0:4.14.344-262.563.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.14.344-262.563.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-devel 0:4.14.344-262.563.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-headers 0:4.14.344-262.563.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-livepatch-4.14.344-262.563 0:1.0-0.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools 0:4.14.344-262.563.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:4.14.344-262.563.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-devel 0:4.14.344-262.563.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf 0:4.14.344-262.563.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.344-262.563.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf 0:4.14.344-262.563.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.344-262.563.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-1077.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-53998.html