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High ALAS2023-2025-1170 4 CVEs

Important: kernel6.12 security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Aug 26, 2025 · Updated Oct 2, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-38727: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netlink: avoid infinite retry looping in netlink_unicast() CVE-2025-38560: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/sev: Evict cache lines during SNP memory validation CVE-2025-38206: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: exfat: fix double free in delayed_free CVE-2025-38204: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: fix array-index-out-of-bounds read in add_missing_indices

Fixed packages 22

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 bpftool6.12 1:6.12.40-64.114.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 bpftool6.12-debuginfo 1:6.12.40-64.114.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.12.40-64.114 1:1.0-0.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel6.12 1:6.12.40-64.114.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel6.12-debuginfo 1:6.12.40-64.114.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel6.12-debuginfo-common-aarch64 1:6.12.40-64.114.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel6.12-debuginfo-common-x86_64 1:6.12.40-64.114.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel6.12-devel 1:6.12.40-64.114.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel6.12-headers 1:6.12.40-64.114.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel6.12-libbpf 1:6.12.40-64.114.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel6.12-libbpf-debuginfo 1:6.12.40-64.114.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel6.12-libbpf-devel 1:6.12.40-64.114.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel6.12-libbpf-static 1:6.12.40-64.114.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel6.12-modules-extra 1:6.12.40-64.114.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel6.12-modules-extra-common 1:6.12.40-64.114.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel6.12-tools 1:6.12.40-64.114.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel6.12-tools-debuginfo 1:6.12.40-64.114.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel6.12-tools-devel 1:6.12.40-64.114.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 perf6.12 1:6.12.40-64.114.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 perf6.12-debuginfo 1:6.12.40-64.114.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 python3-perf6.12 1:6.12.40-64.114.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 python3-perf6.12-debuginfo 1:6.12.40-64.114.amzn2023

Vulnerabilities 4

  • Critical 9.3

    x86/sev: Evict cache lines during SNP memory validation

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/sev: Evict cache lines during SNP memory validation An SNP cache coherency vulnerability requires a cache line eviction mitigation when validating memory after a page state change to priv…

  • High 7.8

    jfs: fix array-index-out-of-bounds read in add_missing_indices

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: fix array-index-out-of-bounds read in add_missing_indices stbl is s8 but it must contain offsets into slot which can go from 0 to 127. Added a bound check for that error and return -EIO …

  • High 7.8

    exfat: fix double free in delayed_free

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: exfat: fix double free in delayed_free The double free could happen in the following path. exfat_create_upcase_table() exfat_create_upcase_table() : return error exfat_free_upcase_table() : f…

  • Unscored —

    netlink: avoid infinite retry looping in netlink_unicast()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netlink: avoid infinite retry looping in netlink_unicast() netlink_attachskb() checks for the socket's read memory allocation constraints. Firstly, it has: rmem < READ_ONCE(sk->sk_rcvbuf) to …

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-38204.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-38206.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-38560.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-38727.html