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High ALAS2-2024-2589 2 CVEs

Important: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jul 3, 2024 · Updated Aug 1, 2024

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-47112: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/kvm: Teardown PV features on boot CPU as well CVE-2021-47110: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/kvm: Disable kvmclock on all CPUs on shutdown

Fixed packages 14

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel 0:4.14.348-265.565.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo 0:4.14.348-265.565.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 0:4.14.348-265.565.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.14.348-265.565.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-devel 0:4.14.348-265.565.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-headers 0:4.14.348-265.565.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-livepatch-4.14.348-265.565 0:1.0-0.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools 0:4.14.348-265.565.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:4.14.348-265.565.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-devel 0:4.14.348-265.565.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf 0:4.14.348-265.565.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.348-265.565.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf 0:4.14.348-265.565.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.348-265.565.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 2

  • High 7.8

    x86/kvm: Teardown PV features on boot CPU as well

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/kvm: Teardown PV features on boot CPU as well Various PV features (Async PF, PV EOI, steal time) work through memory shared with hypervisor and when we restore from hibernation we must pr…

  • Unscored —

    x86/kvm: Disable kvmclock on all CPUs on shutdown

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/kvm: Disable kvmclock on all CPUs on shutdown Currenly, we disable kvmclock from machine_shutdown() hook and this only happens for boot CPU. We need to disable it for all CPUs to guard ag…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-47110.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-47112.html