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Medium ALAS2-2026-4082 1 CVE

Moderate: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Nov 9, 2026 · Updated Nov 9, 2026

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-72435: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ipset: fix order of kfree_rcu() and rcu_assign_pointer()

Fixed packages 14

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel 0:4.14.355-287.768.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-287.768.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 0:4.14.355-287.768.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:4.14.355-287.768.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-devel 0:4.14.355-287.768.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-headers 0:4.14.355-287.768.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-livepatch-4.14.355-287.768 0:1.0-0.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools 0:4.14.355-287.768.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-287.768.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 kernel-tools-devel 0:4.14.355-287.768.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf 0:4.14.355-287.768.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-287.768.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf 0:4.14.355-287.768.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-perf-debuginfo 0:4.14.355-287.768.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.8
    CVE-2026-72435

    netfilter: ipset: fix order of kfree_rcu() and rcu_assign_pointer()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ipset: fix order of kfree_rcu() and rcu_assign_pointer() Sashiko pointed out that kfree_rcu() was called before rcu_assign_pointer() in handling the comment extension. Fix the orde…

    Linux Linux linux-raspi2 linux-hwe Linux Debian Ubuntu

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-72435.html