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High ALAS2-2026-3881 1 CVE

Important: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Aug 31, 2026 · Updated Aug 31, 2026

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-74580: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vhost: reset the vring metadata cache on vring reconfiguration

Fixed packages 14

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel 0:4.14.355-284.742.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-284.742.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 0:4.14.355-284.742.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.14.355-284.742.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-devel 0:4.14.355-284.742.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-headers 0:4.14.355-284.742.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-livepatch-4.14.355-284.742 0:1.0-0.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools 0:4.14.355-284.742.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-284.742.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-devel 0:4.14.355-284.742.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf 0:4.14.355-284.742.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-284.742.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf 0:4.14.355-284.742.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-284.742.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 8.8
    CVE-2026-74580 Public exploit

    vhost: reset the vring metadata cache on vring reconfiguration

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vhost: reset the vring metadata cache on vring reconfiguration vq->meta_iotlb[] caches the vhost_iotlb_map that backs each vring metadata region, and iotlb_access_ok() returns early on a cach…

    Linux Linux linux-raspi2 linux-hwe Linux Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-74580.html