Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2179
Advisory Release Date: 2023-08-03 18:09 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-08-31 22:25 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
2023-08-31: CVE-2023-20569 was added to this advisory.
A side channel vulnerability on some of the AMD CPUs may allow an attacker to influence the return address prediction. This may result in speculative execution at an attacker-controlled?address, potentially leading to information disclosure. (CVE-2023-20569)
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's net/sched: cls_u32 component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.
If tcf_change_indev() fails, u32_set_parms() will immediately return an error after incrementing or decrementing the reference counter in tcf_bind_filter(). If an attacker can control the reference counter and set it to zero, they can cause the reference to be freed, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability.
We recommend upgrading past commit 04c55383fa5689357bcdd2c8036725a55ed632bc. (CVE-2023-3609)
An out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Linux kernel's net/sched: sch_qfq component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.
The qfq_change_agg() function in net/sched/sch_qfq.c allows an out-of-bounds write because lmax is updated according to packet sizes without bounds checks.
We recommend upgrading past commit 3e337087c3b5805fe0b8a46ba622a962880b5d64. (CVE-2023-3611)
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's net/sched: cls_fw component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.
If tcf_change_indev() fails, fw_set_parms() will immediately return an error after incrementing or decrementing the reference counter in tcf_bind_filter(). If an attacker can control the reference counter and set it to zero, they can cause the reference to be freed, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability.
We recommend upgrading past commit 0323bce598eea038714f941ce2b22541c46d488f. (CVE-2023-3776)
Affected Packages:
kernel
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update kernel to update your system.
aarch64:
kernel-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.aarch64
kernel-headers-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.aarch64
kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.aarch64
perf-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.aarch64
perf-debuginfo-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.aarch64
python-perf-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.aarch64
python-perf-debuginfo-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.aarch64
kernel-tools-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.aarch64
kernel-tools-devel-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.aarch64
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.aarch64
kernel-devel-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.aarch64
kernel-debuginfo-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.aarch64
i686:
kernel-headers-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.i686
src:
kernel-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.src
x86_64:
kernel-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.x86_64
kernel-headers-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.x86_64
perf-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.x86_64
perf-debuginfo-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.x86_64
python-perf-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.x86_64
python-perf-debuginfo-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.x86_64
kernel-tools-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.x86_64
kernel-tools-devel-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.x86_64
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.x86_64
kernel-devel-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-4.14.320-243.544.amzn2.x86_64
kernel-livepatch-4.14.320-243.544-1.0-0.amzn2.x86_64