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High ALAS2-2025-2775 9 CVEs

Important: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Feb 26, 2025 · Updated Apr 8, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-56642: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: Fix use-after-free of kernel socket in cleanup_bearer(). CVE-2024-56631: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: sg: Fix slab-use-after-free read in sg_release() CVE-2024-53095: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: Fix use-after-free of network namespace. CVE-2024-50279: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm cache: fix out-of-bounds access to the dirty bitset when resizing CVE-2024-50143: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: udf: fix uninit-value use in udf_get_fileshortad CVE-2024-50035: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ppp: fix ppp_async_encode() illegal access CVE-2024-49995: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: guard against string buffer overrun CVE-2024-10929: Placeholder CVE. Details forthcoming CVE-2021-47163: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: wait and exit until all work queues are done

Fixed packages 14

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel 0:4.14.355-274.598.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-274.598.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 0:4.14.355-274.598.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.14.355-274.598.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-devel 0:4.14.355-274.598.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-headers 0:4.14.355-274.598.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-livepatch-4.14.355-274.598 0:1.0-0.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools 0:4.14.355-274.598.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-274.598.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-devel 0:4.14.355-274.598.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf 0:4.14.355-274.598.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-274.598.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf 0:4.14.355-274.598.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-274.598.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 9

  • Critical 9.8

    smb: client: Fix use-after-free of network namespace.

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: Fix use-after-free of network namespace. Recently, we got a customer report that CIFS triggers oops while reconnecting to a server. [0] The workload runs on Kubernetes, and some …

  • High 7.8

    tipc: wait and exit until all work queues are done

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: wait and exit until all work queues are done On some host, a crash could be triggered simply by repeating these commands several times: # modprobe tipc # tipc bearer enable media udp na…

  • High 7.8

    udf: fix uninit-value use in udf_get_fileshortad

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: udf: fix uninit-value use in udf_get_fileshortad Check for overflow when computing alen in udf_current_aext to mitigate later uninit-value use in udf_get_fileshortad KMSAN bug[1]. After apply…

  • High 7.8

    scsi: sg: Fix slab-use-after-free read in sg_release()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: sg: Fix slab-use-after-free read in sg_release() Fix a use-after-free bug in sg_release(), detected by syzbot with KASAN: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in lock_release+0x151/0xa30 ker…

  • High 7.8

    tipc: Fix use-after-free of kernel socket in cleanup_bearer().

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: Fix use-after-free of kernel socket in cleanup_bearer(). syzkaller reported a use-after-free of UDP kernel socket in cleanup_bearer() without repro. [0][1] When bearer_disable() calls t…

  • High 7.1

    dm cache: fix out-of-bounds access to the dirty bitset when resizing

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm cache: fix out-of-bounds access to the dirty bitset when resizing dm-cache checks the dirty bits of the cache blocks to be dropped when shrinking the fast device, but an index bug in bitse…

  • Medium 5.1

    Spectre-BSE

    In certain circumstances, an issue in Arm Cortex-A57, Cortex-A72 (revisions before r1p0), Cortex-A73 and Cortex-A75 may allow an adversary to gain a weak form of control over the victim's branch history.

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2024-49995 Rejected

    This CVE ID has been rejected or withdrawn by its CVE Numbering Authority.

  • Unscored —

    ppp: fix ppp_async_encode() illegal access

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ppp: fix ppp_async_encode() illegal access syzbot reported an issue in ppp_async_encode() [1] In this case, pppoe_sendmsg() is called with a zero size. Then ppp_async_encode() is called with …

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-47163.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-10929.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-49995.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-50035.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-50143.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-50279.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-53095.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-56631.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-56642.html