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High ALAS2-2025-3090 1 CVE

Important: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Dec 8, 2025 · Updated Dec 8, 2025

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-53680: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSD: Avoid calling OPDESC() with ops->opnum == OP_ILLEGAL

Fixed packages 14

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel 0:4.14.355-280.710.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-280.710.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 0:4.14.355-280.710.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.14.355-280.710.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-devel 0:4.14.355-280.710.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-headers 0:4.14.355-280.710.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-livepatch-4.14.355-280.710 0:1.0-0.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools 0:4.14.355-280.710.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-280.710.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-devel 0:4.14.355-280.710.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf 0:4.14.355-280.710.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-280.710.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf 0:4.14.355-280.710.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-280.710.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2023-53680

    NFSD: Avoid calling OPDESC() with ops->opnum == OP_ILLEGAL

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSD: Avoid calling OPDESC() with ops->opnum == OP_ILLEGAL OPDESC() simply indexes into nfsd4_ops[] by the op's operation number, without range checking that value. It assumes callers are car…

    Linux Linux linux-raspi2 linux-hwe Linux Debian Ubuntu

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-53680.html