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Medium ALAS2-2024-2658 2 CVEs

Moderate: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Oct 24, 2024 · Updated Oct 31, 2024

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-44944: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ctnetlink: use helper function to calculate expect ID CVE-2024-43871: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: devres: Fix memory leakage caused by driver API devm_free_percpu()

Fixed packages 14

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel 0:4.14.353-270.569.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo 0:4.14.353-270.569.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 0:4.14.353-270.569.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.14.353-270.569.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-devel 0:4.14.353-270.569.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-headers 0:4.14.353-270.569.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-livepatch-4.14.353-270.569 0:1.0-0.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools 0:4.14.353-270.569.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:4.14.353-270.569.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-devel 0:4.14.353-270.569.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf 0:4.14.353-270.569.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.353-270.569.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf 0:4.14.353-270.569.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.353-270.569.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Unscored —

    devres: Fix memory leakage caused by driver API devm_free_percpu()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: devres: Fix memory leakage caused by driver API devm_free_percpu() It will cause memory leakage when use driver API devm_free_percpu() to free memory allocated by devm_alloc_percpu(), fixed b…

  • Unscored —

    netfilter: ctnetlink: use helper function to calculate expect ID

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ctnetlink: use helper function to calculate expect ID Delete expectation path is missing a call to the nf_expect_get_id() helper function to calculate the expectation ID, otherwise…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-43871.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-44944.html