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High ALAS2-2025-2865 3 CVEs

Important: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published May 21, 2025 · Updated May 29, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-21722: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: do not force clear folio if buffer is referenced CVE-2024-58083: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: Explicitly verify target vCPU is online in kvm_get_vcpu() CVE-2024-53173: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSv4.0: Fix a use-after-free problem in the asynchronous open()

Fixed packages 14

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel 0:4.14.355-277.647.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-277.647.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 0:4.14.355-277.647.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.14.355-277.647.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-devel 0:4.14.355-277.647.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-headers 0:4.14.355-277.647.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-livepatch-4.14.355-277.647 0:1.0-0.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools 0:4.14.355-277.647.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-277.647.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-devel 0:4.14.355-277.647.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf 0:4.14.355-277.647.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-277.647.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf 0:4.14.355-277.647.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-277.647.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 3

  • High 7.8

    NFSv4.0: Fix a use-after-free problem in the asynchronous open()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSv4.0: Fix a use-after-free problem in the asynchronous open() Yang Erkun reports that when two threads are opening files at the same time, and are forced to abort before a reply is seen, t…

  • High 7.8

    KVM: Explicitly verify target vCPU is online in kvm_get_vcpu()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: Explicitly verify target vCPU is online in kvm_get_vcpu() Explicitly verify the target vCPU is fully online _prior_ to clamping the index in kvm_get_vcpu(). If the index is "bad", the no…

  • High 7.8

    nilfs2: do not force clear folio if buffer is referenced

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: do not force clear folio if buffer is referenced Patch series "nilfs2: protect busy buffer heads from being force-cleared". This series fixes the buffer head state inconsistency issue…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-53173.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-58083.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-21722.html