ALAS-2025-2777


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2025-2777
Advisory Release Date: 2025-02-26 22:35 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-03-10 23:16 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

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

tipc: Return non-zero value from tipc_udp_addr2str() on error (CVE-2024-42284)

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

RDMA/iwcm: Fix a use-after-free related to destroying CM IDs (CVE-2024-42285)

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

devres: Fix memory leakage caused by driver API devm_free_percpu() (CVE-2024-43871)

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

exec: Fix ToCToU between perm check and set-uid/gid usage (CVE-2024-43882)

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

netfilter: ctnetlink: use helper function to calculate expect ID (CVE-2024-44944)


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.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    kernel-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.aarch64
    kernel-headers-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.aarch64
    kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.aarch64
    perf-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.aarch64
    perf-debuginfo-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.aarch64
    python-perf-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.aarch64
    python-perf-debuginfo-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.aarch64
    kernel-tools-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.aarch64
    kernel-tools-devel-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.aarch64
    kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.aarch64
    kernel-devel-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.aarch64
    kernel-debuginfo-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.aarch64

i686:
    kernel-headers-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.i686

src:
    kernel-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.src

x86_64:
    kernel-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-headers-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.x86_64
    perf-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.x86_64
    perf-debuginfo-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.x86_64
    python-perf-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.x86_64
    python-perf-debuginfo-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-tools-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-tools-devel-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-devel-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-debuginfo-4.14.353-270.569.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-livepatch-4.14.353-270.569-1.0-0.amzn2.x86_64

Changelog:

2025-03-10: CVE-2024-43882 was added to this advisory.

2025-03-07: CVE-2024-44944 was added to this advisory.

2025-03-07: CVE-2024-43871 was added to this advisory.