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Medium ALAS2023-2024-731 3 CVEs

Moderate: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Oct 10, 2024 · Updated Oct 2, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-44931: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpio: prevent potential speculation leaks in gpio_device_get_desc() CVE-2024-35870: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix UAF in smb2_reconnect_server() CVE-2024-27017: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: walk over current view on netlink dump

Fixed packages 21

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 bpftool 0:6.1.112-122.189.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 bpftool-debuginfo 0:6.1.112-122.189.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel 0:6.1.112-122.189.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-debuginfo 0:6.1.112-122.189.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 0:6.1.112-122.189.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:6.1.112-122.189.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-devel 0:6.1.112-122.189.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-headers 0:6.1.112-122.189.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-libbpf 0:6.1.112-122.189.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-libbpf-devel 0:6.1.112-122.189.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-libbpf-static 0:6.1.112-122.189.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.1.112-122.189 0:1.0-0.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-modules-extra 0:6.1.112-122.189.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-modules-extra-common 0:6.1.112-122.189.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-tools 0:6.1.112-122.189.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:6.1.112-122.189.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-tools-devel 0:6.1.112-122.189.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 perf 0:6.1.112-122.189.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 perf-debuginfo 0:6.1.112-122.189.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 python3-perf 0:6.1.112-122.189.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 python3-perf-debuginfo 0:6.1.112-122.189.amzn2023

Vulnerabilities 3

  • Critical 9.8

    smb: client: fix UAF in smb2_reconnect_server()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix UAF in smb2_reconnect_server() The UAF bug is due to smb2_reconnect_server() accessing a session that is already being teared down by another thread that is executing __cifs_…

  • High 7.8

    netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: walk over current view on netlink dump

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: walk over current view on netlink dump The generation mask can be updated while netlink dump is in progress. The pipapo set backend walk iterator cannot rely on it …

  • Unscored —

    gpio: prevent potential speculation leaks in gpio_device_get_desc()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpio: prevent potential speculation leaks in gpio_device_get_desc() Userspace may trigger a speculative read of an address outside the gpio descriptor array. Users can do that by calling gpio…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-27017.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-35870.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-44931.html