Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALASDOCKER-2024-041
Advisory Release Date: 2024-08-01 01:11 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-08-27 19:16 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
2024-08-27: CVE-2024-24790 was added to this advisory.
2024-08-14: CVE-2023-47108 was removed from this advisory.
2024-08-14: The severity of this advisory has been changed from Important to Medium.
The protojson.Unmarshal function can enter an infinite loop when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON. This condition can occur when unmarshaling into a message which contains a google.protobuf.Any value, or when the UnmarshalOptions.DiscardUnknown option is set. (CVE-2024-24786)
The various Is methods (IsPrivate, IsLoopback, etc) did not work as expected for IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses, returning false for addresses which would return true in their traditional IPv4 forms. (CVE-2024-24790)
Package jose aims to provide an implementation of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption set of standards. An attacker could send a JWE containing compressed data that used large amounts of memory and CPU when decompressed by Decrypt or DecryptMulti. Those functions now return an error if the decompressed data would exceed 250kB or 10x the compressed size (whichever is larger). This vulnerability has been patched in versions 4.0.1, 3.0.3 and 2.6.3. (CVE-2024-28180)
Affected Packages:
containerd
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 - Docker Extra. Visit this page to learn more about Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Extras and this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update containerd to update your system.
aarch64:
containerd-1.7.20-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
containerd-stress-1.7.20-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
containerd-debuginfo-1.7.20-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
src:
containerd-1.7.20-1.amzn2.0.1.src
x86_64:
containerd-1.7.20-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
containerd-stress-1.7.20-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
containerd-debuginfo-1.7.20-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64