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High ALAS2023-2025-1253 18 CVEs

Important: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Oct 27, 2025 · Updated Oct 27, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-40186: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tcp: Don't call reqsk_fastopen_remove() in tcp_conn_request(). CVE-2025-40153: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: hugetlb: avoid soft lockup when mprotect to large memory area CVE-2025-40134: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm: fix NULL pointer dereference in __dm_suspend() CVE-2025-40125: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-mq: check kobject state_in_sysfs before deleting in blk_mq_unregister_hctx CVE-2025-40123: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Enforce expected_attach_type for tailcall compatibility CVE-2025-40115: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: mpt3sas: Fix crash in transport port remove by using ioc_info() CVE-2025-40109: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: rng - Ensure set_ent is always present CVE-2025-40081: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf: arm_spe: Prevent overflow in PERF_IDX2OFF() CVE-2025-40080: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nbd: restrict sockets to TCP and UDP CVE-2025-40078: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Explicitly check accesses to bpf_sock_addr CVE-2025-40070: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pps: fix warning in pps_register_cdev when register device fail CVE-2025-40068: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs: ntfs3: Fix integer overflow in run_unpack() CVE-2025-40049: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Squashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent CVE-2025-40048: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: uio_hv_generic: Let userspace take care of interrupt mask CVE-2025-40044: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs: udf: fix OOB read in lengthAllocDescs handling CVE-2025-40035: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Input: uinput - zero-initialize uinput_ff_upload_compat to avoid info leak CVE-2025-40018: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipvs: Defer ip_vs_ftp unregister during netns cleanup CVE-2025-39998: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: target: target_core_configfs: Add length check to avoid buffer overflow

Fixed packages 22

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 bpftool 1:6.1.156-177.286.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 bpftool-debuginfo 1:6.1.156-177.286.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel 1:6.1.156-177.286.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-debuginfo 1:6.1.156-177.286.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 1:6.1.156-177.286.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 1:6.1.156-177.286.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-devel 1:6.1.156-177.286.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-headers 1:6.1.156-177.286.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-libbpf 1:6.1.156-177.286.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-libbpf-debuginfo 1:6.1.156-177.286.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-libbpf-devel 1:6.1.156-177.286.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-libbpf-static 1:6.1.156-177.286.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.1.156-177.286 1:1.0-0.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-modules-extra 1:6.1.156-177.286.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-modules-extra-common 1:6.1.156-177.286.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-tools 1:6.1.156-177.286.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-tools-debuginfo 1:6.1.156-177.286.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-tools-devel 1:6.1.156-177.286.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 perf 1:6.1.156-177.286.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 perf-debuginfo 1:6.1.156-177.286.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 python3-perf 1:6.1.156-177.286.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 python3-perf-debuginfo 1:6.1.156-177.286.amzn2023

Vulnerabilities 18

  • High 8.4

    fs: ntfs3: Fix integer overflow in run_unpack()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs: ntfs3: Fix integer overflow in run_unpack() The MFT record relative to the file being opened contains its runlist, an array containing information about the file's location on the physica…

  • High 8.1

    tcp: Don't call reqsk_fastopen_remove() in tcp_conn_request().

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tcp: Don't call reqsk_fastopen_remove() in tcp_conn_request(). syzbot reported the splat below in tcp_conn_request(). [0] If a listener is close()d while a TFO socket is being processed in tc…

  • High 7.8

    ipvs: Defer ip_vs_ftp unregister during netns cleanup

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipvs: Defer ip_vs_ftp unregister during netns cleanup On the netns cleanup path, __ip_vs_ftp_exit() may unregister ip_vs_ftp before connections with valid cp->app pointers are flushed, leadin…

  • High 7.8

    fs: udf: fix OOB read in lengthAllocDescs handling

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs: udf: fix OOB read in lengthAllocDescs handling When parsing Allocation Extent Descriptor, lengthAllocDescs comes from on-disk data and must be validated against the block size. Crafted or…

  • High 7.8

    perf: arm_spe: Prevent overflow in PERF_IDX2OFF()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf: arm_spe: Prevent overflow in PERF_IDX2OFF() Cast nr_pages to unsigned long to avoid overflow when handling large AUX buffer sizes (>= 2 GiB).

  • High 7.8
    CVE-2025-40123 Public exploit

    bpf: Enforce expected_attach_type for tailcall compatibility

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Enforce expected_attach_type for tailcall compatibility Yinhao et al. recently reported: Our fuzzer tool discovered an uninitialized pointer issue in the bpf_prog_test_run_xdp() function…

  • High 7.5

    uio_hv_generic: Let userspace take care of interrupt mask

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: uio_hv_generic: Let userspace take care of interrupt mask Remove the logic to set interrupt mask by default in uio_hv_generic driver as the interrupt mask value is supposed to be controlled c…

  • High 7.1

    scsi: target: target_core_configfs: Add length check to avoid buffer overflow

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: target: target_core_configfs: Add length check to avoid buffer overflow A buffer overflow arises from the usage of snprintf to write into the buffer "buf" in target_lu_gp_members_show f…

  • Unscored —

    Input: uinput - zero-initialize uinput_ff_upload_compat to avoid info leak

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Input: uinput - zero-initialize uinput_ff_upload_compat to avoid info leak Struct ff_effect_compat is embedded twice inside uinput_ff_upload_compat, contains internal padding. In particular, …

  • Unscored —

    Squashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Squashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent Syzkaller reports a "KMSAN: uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent" bug. This is caused by open_by_handle_at() being called with a file handle c…

  • Unscored —

    pps: fix warning in pps_register_cdev when register device fail

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pps: fix warning in pps_register_cdev when register device fail Similar to previous commit 2a934fdb01db ("media: v4l2-dev: fix error handling in __video_register_device()"), the release hook …

  • Unscored —

    bpf: Explicitly check accesses to bpf_sock_addr

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Explicitly check accesses to bpf_sock_addr Syzkaller found a kernel warning on the following sock_addr program: 0: r0 = 0 1: r2 = *(u32 *)(r1 +60) 2: exit which triggers: verifier bug: e…

  • Unscored —

    nbd: restrict sockets to TCP and UDP

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nbd: restrict sockets to TCP and UDP Recently, syzbot started to abuse NBD with all kinds of sockets. Commit cf1b2326b734 ("nbd: verify socket is supported during setup") made sure the socket…

  • Unscored —

    crypto: rng - Ensure set_ent is always present

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: rng - Ensure set_ent is always present Ensure that set_ent is always set since only drbg provides it.

  • Unscored —

    scsi: mpt3sas: Fix crash in transport port remove by using ioc_info()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: mpt3sas: Fix crash in transport port remove by using ioc_info() During mpt3sas_transport_port_remove(), messages were logged with dev_printk() against &mpt3sas_port->port->dev. At this …

  • Unscored —

    blk-mq: check kobject state_in_sysfs before deleting in blk_mq_unregister_hctx

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-mq: check kobject state_in_sysfs before deleting in blk_mq_unregister_hctx In __blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues() the return value of blk_mq_sysfs_register_hctxs() is not checked. If sysfs cre…

  • Unscored —

    dm: fix NULL pointer dereference in __dm_suspend()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm: fix NULL pointer dereference in __dm_suspend() There is a race condition between dm device suspend and table load that can lead to null pointer dereference. The issue occurs when suspend …

  • Unscored —

    mm: hugetlb: avoid soft lockup when mprotect to large memory area

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: hugetlb: avoid soft lockup when mprotect to large memory area When calling mprotect() to a large hugetlb memory area in our customer's workload (~300GB hugetlb memory), soft lockup was ob…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-39998.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-40018.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-40035.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-40044.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-40048.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-40049.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-40068.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-40070.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-40078.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-40080.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-40081.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-40109.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-40115.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-40123.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-40125.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-40134.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-40153.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-40186.html