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High ALAS2-2026-3161 3 CVEs

Important: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Feb 5, 2026 · Updated Feb 5, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-40173: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/ip6_tunnel: Prevent perpetual tunnel growth CVE-2025-40070: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pps: fix warning in pps_register_cdev when register device fail CVE-2024-26804: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ip_tunnel: prevent perpetual headroom growth

Fixed packages 14

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel 0:4.14.355-280.713.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-280.713.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 0:4.14.355-280.713.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.14.355-280.713.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-devel 0:4.14.355-280.713.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-headers 0:4.14.355-280.713.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-livepatch-4.14.355-280.713 0:1.0-0.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools 0:4.14.355-280.713.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-280.713.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-devel 0:4.14.355-280.713.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf 0:4.14.355-280.713.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-280.713.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf 0:4.14.355-280.713.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-280.713.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 3

  • High 7.8

    net: ip_tunnel: prevent perpetual headroom growth

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ip_tunnel: prevent perpetual headroom growth syzkaller triggered following kasan splat: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __skb_flow_dissect+0x19d1/0x7a50 net/core/flow_dissector.c:1170 Read…

  • High 7.8

    net/ip6_tunnel: Prevent perpetual tunnel growth

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/ip6_tunnel: Prevent perpetual tunnel growth Similarly to ipv4 tunnel, ipv6 version updates dev->needed_headroom, too. While ipv4 tunnel headroom adjustment growth was limited in commit 5a…

  • Unscored —

    pps: fix warning in pps_register_cdev when register device fail

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pps: fix warning in pps_register_cdev when register device fail Similar to previous commit 2a934fdb01db ("media: v4l2-dev: fix error handling in __video_register_device()"), the release hook …

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-26804.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-40070.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-40173.html