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High ALAS2023-2026-3389 15 CVEs

Important: kernel security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Nov 9, 2026 · Updated Nov 11, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-99082: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: Use active memslots for the per-vCPU MMIO cache CVE-2026-99053: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: hold a reference to nodes found by link name CVE-2026-98857: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipvs: bound LBLCR and LBLC cache growth CVE-2026-98846: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: check RCV_SHUTDOWN after the sendmsg connect wait CVE-2026-98805: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: prevent GCM nonce reuse on peer key changes CVE-2026-98715: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SVM: Preserve TLB control (i.e. pending TLB flush) on failed VMRUN CVE-2026-98466: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Transfer the hyp stack pages out of the host stage-2 CVE-2026-98454: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix create context out-of-bounds reads CVE-2026-98033: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Preserve inner map identity in callback frames CVE-2026-97563: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: reject out-of-bounds DataOffset in CIFSSMBRead() CVE-2026-90036: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during blocked-lock reaping CVE-2026-89659: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during delegation revoke CVE-2026-89633: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix OOB read/write from unvalidated DataOffset in coalesce_t2() CVE-2026-74752: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: validate cookie AUTH state before use CVE-2026-74356: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vhost: fix vhost_get_avail_idx for a non empty ring

Fixed packages 19

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 bpftool 1:6.1.190-237.431.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 bpftool-debuginfo 1:6.1.190-237.431.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel 1:6.1.190-237.431.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-debuginfo 1:6.1.190-237.431.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 1:6.1.190-237.431.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 1:6.1.190-237.431.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-devel 1:6.1.190-237.431.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-headers 1:6.1.190-237.431.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.1.190-237.431 1:1.0-0.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-modules-extra 1:6.1.190-237.431.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-modules-extra-common 1:6.1.190-237.431.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-tools 1:6.1.190-237.431.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-tools-debuginfo 1:6.1.190-237.431.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 kernel-tools-devel 1:6.1.190-237.431.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 microvm-kernel 1:6.1.190-237.431.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 perf 1:6.1.190-237.431.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 perf-debuginfo 1:6.1.190-237.431.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 python3-perf 1:6.1.190-237.431.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 python3-perf-debuginfo 1:6.1.190-237.431.amzn2023

Vulnerabilities 15

  • Critical 9.8

    sctp: validate cookie AUTH state before use

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: validate cookie AUTH state before use When cookie authentication is disabled, COOKIE_ECHO restores fixed-size AUTH fields directly from peer-controlled cookie bytes. A forged RANDOM len…

  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2026-89633 Public exploit

    smb: client: fix OOB read/write from unvalidated DataOffset in coalesce_t2()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix OOB read/write from unvalidated DataOffset in coalesce_t2() coalesce_t2() computes data pointers directly from server-supplied DataOffset fields with no validation against bu…

  • Critical 9.8

    NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during delegation revoke

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during delegation revoke A delegation stateid holds only a bare pointer to its owning nfs4_client and does not keep it alive. The client survives its state…

  • Critical 9.8

    NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during blocked-lock reaping

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during blocked-lock reaping A bare lock owner -- its only remaining reference a blocked lock on nn->blocked_locks_lru -- holds a raw pointer to its nfs4_cl…

  • High 8.8

    KVM: x86: Use active memslots for the per-vCPU MMIO cache

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: Use active memslots for the per-vCPU MMIO cache KVM tags the per-vCPU MMIO cache with a memslot generation so that a memslot update invalidates cached MMIO information. Both the fil…

  • High 8.2

    KVM: arm64: Transfer the hyp stack pages out of the host stage-2

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Transfer the hyp stack pages out of the host stage-2 fix_host_ownership() walks only the linear-map alias of each memblock region, and the per-CPU hyp stack, mapped in the private…

  • High 8.1

    smb: client: fix create context out-of-bounds reads

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix create context out-of-bounds reads smb2_parse_contexts() validates the complete create-context area but does not limit each record to its Next field before dispatching it. A …

  • High 7.8

    tipc: hold a reference to nodes found by link name

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: hold a reference to nodes found by link name tipc_node_find_by_name() returns a node after dropping its RCU read lock without taking a reference. The LINK_SET, LINK_GET and LINK_RESET_S…

  • High 7.4

    vhost: fix vhost_get_avail_idx for a non empty ring

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vhost: fix vhost_get_avail_idx for a non empty ring vhost_get_avail_idx is supposed to report whether it has updated vq->avail_idx. Instead, it returns whether all entries have been consumed,…

  • Unscored —

    smb: client: reject out-of-bounds DataOffset in CIFSSMBRead()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: reject out-of-bounds DataOffset in CIFSSMBRead() The SMB1 synchronous read helper CIFSSMBRead() validates the server's DataLength against CIFSMaxBufSize and the caller's count, b…

  • Unscored —

    bpf: Preserve inner map identity in callback frames

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Preserve inner map identity in callback frames Callback frame constructors initialize map-typed argument registers with __mark_reg_known_zero() and then restore map_ptr. This clears map_…

  • Unscored —

    KVM: SVM: Preserve TLB control (i.e. pending TLB flush) on failed VMRUN

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SVM: Preserve TLB control (i.e. pending TLB flush) on failed VMRUN Don't reset the VMCB's TLB control back to "do nothing" on a failed VMRUN, as empirical testing shows that the CPU perf…

  • Unscored —

    tipc: prevent GCM nonce reuse on peer key changes

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: prevent GCM nonce reuse on peer key changes TIPC can encrypt traffic between nodes using a different transmit key for each node. In this mode, the AES-GCM nonce for a packet sent to a k…

  • Unscored —

    sctp: check RCV_SHUTDOWN after the sendmsg connect wait

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: check RCV_SHUTDOWN after the sendmsg connect wait sctp_wait_for_connect() drops the socket lock while it sleeps. An out-of-the-blue ABORT can then be processed from the socket backlog a…

  • Unscored —

    ipvs: bound LBLCR and LBLC cache growth

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipvs: bound LBLCR and LBLC cache growth ip_vs_lblcr_new() and ip_vs_lblc_new() create cache entries for every previously unseen destination address. The table max_size only tells the periodic…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-74356.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-74752.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-89633.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-89659.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-90036.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-97563.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-98033.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-98454.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-98466.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-98715.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-98805.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-98846.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-98857.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-99053.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-99082.html