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Medium ALAS2023-2024-778 2 CVEs

Moderate: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Dec 5, 2024 · Updated Dec 16, 2024

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-49996: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix buffer overflow when parsing NFS reparse points CVE-2024-41080: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: fix possible deadlock in io_register_iowq_max_workers()

Fixed packages 21

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 bpftool 0:6.1.119-129.201.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 bpftool-debuginfo 0:6.1.119-129.201.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel 0:6.1.119-129.201.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-debuginfo 0:6.1.119-129.201.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 0:6.1.119-129.201.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 0:6.1.119-129.201.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-devel 0:6.1.119-129.201.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-headers 0:6.1.119-129.201.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-libbpf 0:6.1.119-129.201.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-libbpf-devel 0:6.1.119-129.201.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-libbpf-static 0:6.1.119-129.201.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.1.119-129.201 0:1.0-0.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-modules-extra 0:6.1.119-129.201.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-modules-extra-common 0:6.1.119-129.201.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-tools 0:6.1.119-129.201.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-tools-debuginfo 0:6.1.119-129.201.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-tools-devel 0:6.1.119-129.201.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 perf 0:6.1.119-129.201.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 perf-debuginfo 0:6.1.119-129.201.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 python3-perf 0:6.1.119-129.201.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 python3-perf-debuginfo 0:6.1.119-129.201.amzn2023

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Critical 9.4

    cifs: Fix buffer overflow when parsing NFS reparse points

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix buffer overflow when parsing NFS reparse points ReparseDataLength is sum of the InodeType size and DataBuffer size. So to get DataBuffer size it is needed to subtract InodeType's si…

  • Unscored —

    io_uring: fix possible deadlock in io_register_iowq_max_workers()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: fix possible deadlock in io_register_iowq_max_workers() The io_register_iowq_max_workers() function calls io_put_sq_data(), which acquires the sqd->lock without releasing the uring_…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-41080.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-49996.html