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Medium ALAS2023-2025-1282 1 CVE

Moderate: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Nov 10, 2025 · Updated Nov 10, 2025

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-40019: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: essiv - Check ssize for decryption and in-place encryption

Fixed packages 22

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 bpftool 1:6.1.158-178.288.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 bpftool-debuginfo 1:6.1.158-178.288.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel 1:6.1.158-178.288.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-debuginfo 1:6.1.158-178.288.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 1:6.1.158-178.288.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 1:6.1.158-178.288.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-devel 1:6.1.158-178.288.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-headers 1:6.1.158-178.288.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-libbpf 1:6.1.158-178.288.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-libbpf-debuginfo 1:6.1.158-178.288.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-libbpf-devel 1:6.1.158-178.288.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-libbpf-static 1:6.1.158-178.288.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.1.158-178.288 1:1.0-0.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-modules-extra 1:6.1.158-178.288.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-modules-extra-common 1:6.1.158-178.288.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-tools 1:6.1.158-178.288.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-tools-debuginfo 1:6.1.158-178.288.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-tools-devel 1:6.1.158-178.288.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 perf 1:6.1.158-178.288.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 perf-debuginfo 1:6.1.158-178.288.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 python3-perf 1:6.1.158-178.288.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 python3-perf-debuginfo 1:6.1.158-178.288.amzn2023

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2025-40019 Public exploit

    crypto: essiv - Check ssize for decryption and in-place encryption

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: essiv - Check ssize for decryption and in-place encryption Move the ssize check to the start in essiv_aead_crypt so that it's also checked for decryption and in-place encryption.

    Linux Linux linux-raspi2 linux-hwe Linux Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-40019.html