ALAS-2024-2696


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-2696
Advisory Release Date: 2024-11-08 18:01 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-11-15 14:00 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipv6: prevent UAF in ip6_send_skb() (CVE-2024-44987)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

VMCI: Fix use-after-free when removing resource in vmci_resource_remove() (CVE-2024-46738)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

of/irq: Prevent device address out-of-bounds read in interrupt map walk (CVE-2024-46743)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Squashfs: sanity check symbolic link size (CVE-2024-46744)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Input: uinput - reject requests with unreasonable number of slots (CVE-2024-46745)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

PCI: Add missing bridge lock to pci_bus_lock() (CVE-2024-46750)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hwmon: (w83627ehf) Fix underflows seen when writing limit attributes (CVE-2024-46756)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hwmon: (nct6775-core) Fix underflows seen when writing limit attributes (CVE-2024-46757)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hwmon: (lm95234) Fix underflows seen when writing limit attributes (CVE-2024-46758)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hwmon: (adc128d818) Fix underflows seen when writing limit attributes (CVE-2024-46759)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nilfs2: protect references to superblock parameters exposed in sysfs (CVE-2024-46780)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nilfs2: fix missing cleanup on rollforward recovery error (CVE-2024-46781)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sch/netem: fix use after free in netem_dequeue (CVE-2024-46800)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rtmutex: Drop rt_mutex::wait_lock before scheduling (CVE-2024-46829)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: clean up our handling of refs == 0 in snapshot delete (CVE-2024-46840)


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.
System reboot is required in order to complete this update.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    kernel-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.aarch64
    kernel-headers-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.aarch64
    kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.aarch64
    perf-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.aarch64
    perf-debuginfo-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.aarch64
    python-perf-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.aarch64
    python-perf-debuginfo-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.aarch64
    kernel-tools-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.aarch64
    kernel-tools-devel-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.aarch64
    kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.aarch64
    kernel-devel-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.aarch64
    kernel-debuginfo-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.aarch64

i686:
    kernel-headers-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.i686

src:
    kernel-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.src

x86_64:
    kernel-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-headers-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.x86_64
    perf-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.x86_64
    perf-debuginfo-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.x86_64
    python-perf-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.x86_64
    python-perf-debuginfo-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-tools-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-tools-devel-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-devel-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-debuginfo-4.14.355-271.569.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-livepatch-4.14.355-271.569-1.0-0.amzn2.x86_64