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Medium ALAS2023-2024-665 8 CVEs

Moderate: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Jul 18, 2024 · Updated Aug 14, 2024

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-42096: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86: stop playing stack games in profile_pc() CVE-2024-42090: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pinctrl: fix deadlock in create_pinctrl() when handling -EPROBE_DEFER CVE-2024-42070: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_tables: fully validate NFT_DATA_VALUE on store to data registers CVE-2024-42068: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Take return from set_memory_ro() into account with bpf_prog_lock_ro() CVE-2024-42063: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Mark bpf prog stack with kmsan_unposion_memory in interpreter mode CVE-2024-41092: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915/gt: Fix potential UAF by revoke of fence registers CVE-2024-41009: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix overrunning reservations in ringbuf CVE-2024-27397: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_tables: use timestamp to check for set element timeout

Fixed packages 21

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 bpftool 0:6.1.97-104.177.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 bpftool-debuginfo 0:6.1.97-104.177.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel 0:6.1.97-104.177.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-debuginfo 0:6.1.97-104.177.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 0:6.1.97-104.177.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:6.1.97-104.177.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-devel 0:6.1.97-104.177.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-headers 0:6.1.97-104.177.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-libbpf 0:6.1.97-104.177.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-libbpf-devel 0:6.1.97-104.177.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-libbpf-static 0:6.1.97-104.177.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.1.97-104.177 0:1.0-0.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-modules-extra 0:6.1.97-104.177.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-modules-extra-common 0:6.1.97-104.177.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-tools 0:6.1.97-104.177.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:6.1.97-104.177.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-tools-devel 0:6.1.97-104.177.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 perf 0:6.1.97-104.177.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 perf-debuginfo 0:6.1.97-104.177.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 python3-perf 0:6.1.97-104.177.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 python3-perf-debuginfo 0:6.1.97-104.177.amzn2023

Vulnerabilities 8

  • High 7.8

    netfilter: nf_tables: use timestamp to check for set element timeout

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_tables: use timestamp to check for set element timeout Add a timestamp field at the beginning of the transaction, store it in the nftables per-netns area. Update set backend .in…

  • High 7.8

    bpf: Fix overrunning reservations in ringbuf

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix overrunning reservations in ringbuf The BPF ring buffer internally is implemented as a power-of-2 sized circular buffer, with two logical and ever-increasing counters: consumer_pos i…

  • High 7.8

    drm/i915/gt: Fix potential UAF by revoke of fence registers

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915/gt: Fix potential UAF by revoke of fence registers CI has been sporadically reporting the following issue triggered by igt@i915_selftest@live@hangcheck on ADL-P and similar machines:…

  • High 7.8

    bpf: Take return from set_memory_ro() into account with bpf_prog_lock_ro()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Take return from set_memory_ro() into account with bpf_prog_lock_ro() set_memory_ro() can fail, leaving memory unprotected. Check its return and take it into account as an error.

  • Unscored —

    bpf: Mark bpf prog stack with kmsan_unposion_memory in interpreter mode

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Mark bpf prog stack with kmsan_unposion_memory in interpreter mode syzbot reported uninit memory usages during map_{lookup,delete}_elem. ========== BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __dev_map_…

  • Unscored —

    netfilter: nf_tables: fully validate NFT_DATA_VALUE on store to data registers

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_tables: fully validate NFT_DATA_VALUE on store to data registers register store validation for NFT_DATA_VALUE is conditional, however, the datatype is always either NFT_DATA_VAL…

  • Unscored —

    pinctrl: fix deadlock in create_pinctrl() when handling -EPROBE_DEFER

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pinctrl: fix deadlock in create_pinctrl() when handling -EPROBE_DEFER In create_pinctrl(), pinctrl_maps_mutex is acquired before calling add_setting(). If add_setting() returns -EPROBE_DEFER,…

  • Unscored —

    x86: stop playing stack games in profile_pc()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86: stop playing stack games in profile_pc() The 'profile_pc()' function is used for timer-based profiling, which isn't really all that relevant any more to begin with, but it also ends up m…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-27397.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-41009.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-41092.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-42063.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-42068.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-42070.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-42090.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-42096.html