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High ALAS2-2025-2929 3 CVEs

Important: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jul 2, 2025 · Updated Jul 10, 2025

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-37942: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: pidff: Make sure to fetch pool before checking SIMULTANEOUS_MAX CVE-2025-37923: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing: Fix oob write in trace_seq_to_buffer() CVE-2023-53137: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: Fix possible corruption when moving a directory

Fixed packages 14

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel 0:4.14.355-280.651.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-280.651.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 0:4.14.355-280.651.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.14.355-280.651.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-devel 0:4.14.355-280.651.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-headers 0:4.14.355-280.651.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-livepatch-4.14.355-280.651 0:1.0-0.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools 0:4.14.355-280.651.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-280.651.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-devel 0:4.14.355-280.651.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf 0:4.14.355-280.651.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-280.651.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf 0:4.14.355-280.651.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-280.651.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-53137.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-37923.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-37942.html