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High ALAS2-2024-2642 1 CVE

Important: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Sep 25, 2024 · Updated Oct 2, 2024

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-39494: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ima: Fix use-after-free on a dentry's dname.name

Fixed packages 14

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel 0:4.14.352-268.568.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo 0:4.14.352-268.568.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 0:4.14.352-268.568.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.14.352-268.568.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-devel 0:4.14.352-268.568.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-headers 0:4.14.352-268.568.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-livepatch-4.14.352-268.568 0:1.0-0.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools 0:4.14.352-268.568.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:4.14.352-268.568.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-devel 0:4.14.352-268.568.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf 0:4.14.352-268.568.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.352-268.568.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf 0:4.14.352-268.568.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.352-268.568.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.8
    CVE-2024-39494

    ima: Fix use-after-free on a dentry's dname.name

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ima: Fix use-after-free on a dentry's dname.name ->d_name.name can change on rename and the earlier value can be freed; there are conditions sufficient to stabilize it (->d_lock on dentry, ->…

    Linux Linux linux-raspi2 linux-hwe Linux Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-39494.html