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High ALAS2-2025-2759 2 CVEs

Important: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Feb 12, 2025 · Updated Feb 25, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-50055: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: driver core: bus: Fix double free in driver API bus_register() CVE-2024-49860: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPI: sysfs: validate return type of _STR method

Fixed packages 14

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel 0:4.14.355-275.591.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-275.591.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 0:4.14.355-275.591.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.14.355-275.591.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-devel 0:4.14.355-275.591.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-headers 0:4.14.355-275.591.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-livepatch-4.14.355-275.591 0:1.0-0.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools 0:4.14.355-275.591.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-275.591.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-devel 0:4.14.355-275.591.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf 0:4.14.355-275.591.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-275.591.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf 0:4.14.355-275.591.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-275.591.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 2

  • High 7.8

    driver core: bus: Fix double free in driver API bus_register()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: driver core: bus: Fix double free in driver API bus_register() For bus_register(), any error which happens after kset_register() will cause that @priv are freed twice, fixed by setting @priv …

  • High 7.3

    ACPI: sysfs: validate return type of _STR method

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPI: sysfs: validate return type of _STR method Only buffer objects are valid return values of _STR. If something else is returned description_show() will access invalid memory.

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-49860.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-50055.html