ALAS2-2023-2307

Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2307
Advisory Release Date: 2023-10-12 15:09 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-10-19 23:41 Pacific
Severity: Medium
Issue Overview:

The CIL compiler in SELinux 3.2 has a use-after-free in __cil_verify_classperms (called from __cil_verify_classpermission and __cil_pre_verify_helper). (CVE-2021-36084)

The CIL compiler in SELinux 3.2 has a use-after-free in __cil_verify_classperms (called from __verify_map_perm_classperms and hashtab_map). (CVE-2021-36085)

The CIL compiler in SELinux 3.2 has a use-after-free in cil_reset_classpermission (called from cil_reset_classperms_set and cil_reset_classperms_list). (CVE-2021-36086)

The CIL compiler in SELinux 3.2 has a heap-based buffer over-read in ebitmap_match_any (called indirectly from cil_check_neverallow). This occurs because there is sometimes a lack of checks for invalid statements in an optional block. (CVE-2021-36087)


Affected Packages:

libsepol


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 libsepol to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    libsepol-2.5-10.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    libsepol-devel-2.5-10.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    libsepol-static-2.5-10.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    libsepol-debuginfo-2.5-10.amzn2.0.1.aarch64

i686:
    libsepol-2.5-10.amzn2.0.1.i686
    libsepol-devel-2.5-10.amzn2.0.1.i686
    libsepol-static-2.5-10.amzn2.0.1.i686
    libsepol-debuginfo-2.5-10.amzn2.0.1.i686

src:
    libsepol-2.5-10.amzn2.0.1.src

x86_64:
    libsepol-2.5-10.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    libsepol-devel-2.5-10.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    libsepol-static-2.5-10.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    libsepol-debuginfo-2.5-10.amzn2.0.1.x86_64

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2021-36084, CVE-2021-36085, CVE-2021-36086, CVE-2021-36087

Mitre: CVE-2021-36084, CVE-2021-36085, CVE-2021-36086, CVE-2021-36087