ALAS2023-2026-1468


Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS2023-2026-1468
Advisory Released Date: 2026-03-05
Advisory Updated Date: 2026-03-23
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

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

blk-cgroup: Reinit blkg_iostat_set after clearing in blkcg_reset_stats() (CVE-2023-53421)

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

iomap: Fix possible overflow condition in iomap_write_delalloc_scan (CVE-2023-54285)

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

bpf: Reject narrower access to pointer ctx fields (CVE-2025-38591)

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

sctp: linearize cloned gso packets in sctp_rcv (CVE-2025-38718)

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

smb: client: fix potential UAF in smb2_close_cached_fid() (CVE-2025-40328)

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

team: Move team device type change at the end of team_port_add (CVE-2025-68340)

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

fs/ntfs3: Initialize allocated memory before use (CVE-2025-68365)

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

bpf: Do not let BPF test infra emit invalid GSO types to stack (CVE-2025-68725)

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

iommu: disable SVA when CONFIG_X86 is set (CVE-2025-71089)

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

btrfs: fix deadlock in wait_current_trans() due to ignored transaction type (CVE-2025-71194)

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

btrfs: fix reservation leak in some error paths when inserting inline extent (CVE-2025-71268)

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

net/sched: sch_qfq: do not free existing class in qfq_change_class() (CVE-2026-22999)

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

macvlan: fix possible UAF in macvlan_forward_source() (CVE-2026-23001)

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

ip6_tunnel: use skb_vlan_inet_prepare() in __ip6_tnl_rcv() (CVE-2026-23003)

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

x86/fpu: Clear XSTATE_BV[i] in guest XSAVE state whenever XFD[i]=1 (CVE-2026-23005)

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

ipv6: Fix use-after-free in inet6_addr_del(). (CVE-2026-23010)

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

ipv4: ip_gre: make ipgre_header() robust (CVE-2026-23011)

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

mm/page_alloc: prevent pcp corruption with SMP=n (CVE-2026-23025)

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

pnfs/flexfiles: Fix memory leak in nfs4_ff_alloc_deviceid_node() (CVE-2026-23038)

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

net: hv_netvsc: reject RSS hash key programming without RX indirection table (CVE-2026-23054)

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

crypto: authencesn - reject too-short AAD (assoclen<8) to match ESP/ESN spec (CVE-2026-23060)

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

vsock/virtio: fix potential underflow in virtio_transport_get_credit() (CVE-2026-23069)

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

regmap: Fix race condition in hwspinlock irqsave routine (CVE-2026-23071)

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

net/sched: Enforce that teql can only be used as root qdisc (CVE-2026-23074)

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

fou: Don't allow 0 for FOU_ATTR_IPPROTO. (CVE-2026-23083)

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

irqchip/gic-v3-its: Avoid truncating memory addresses (CVE-2026-23085)

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

vsock/virtio: cap TX credit to local buffer size (CVE-2026-23086)

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

gue: Fix skb memleak with inner IP protocol 0. (CVE-2026-23095)

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

migrate: correct lock ordering for hugetlb file folios (CVE-2026-23097)

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

bonding: limit BOND_MODE_8023AD to Ethernet devices (CVE-2026-23099)

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

arm64/fpsimd: signal: Fix restoration of SVE context (CVE-2026-23102)

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

ipvlan: Make the addrs_lock be per port (CVE-2026-23103)

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

net/sched: qfq: Use cl_is_active to determine whether class is active in qfq_rm_from_ag (CVE-2026-23105)

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

arm64/fpsimd: signal: Allocate SSVE storage when restoring ZA (CVE-2026-23107)

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

scsi: core: Wake up the error handler when final completions race against each other (CVE-2026-23110)

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

netfilter: nf_tables: fix inverted genmask check in nft_map_catchall_activate() (CVE-2026-23111)

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

bonding: provide a net pointer to __skb_flow_dissect() (CVE-2026-23119)

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

ipv6: annotate data-race in ndisc_router_discovery() (CVE-2026-23124)

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

sctp: move SCTP_CMD_ASSOC_SHKEY right after SCTP_CMD_PEER_INIT (CVE-2026-23125)

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

netdevsim: fix a race issue related to the operation on bpf_bound_progs list (CVE-2026-23126)

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

arm64: Set __nocfi on swsusp_arch_resume() (CVE-2026-23128)

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

mm/damon/sysfs-scheme: cleanup access_pattern subdirs on scheme dir setup failure (CVE-2026-23142)

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

mm/damon/sysfs: cleanup attrs subdirs on context dir setup failure (CVE-2026-23144)

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

ext4: fix iloc.bh leak in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref (CVE-2026-23145)

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

efivarfs: fix error propagation in efivar_entry_get() (CVE-2026-23156)

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

flex_proportions: make fprop_new_period() hardirq safe (CVE-2026-23168)

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

scsi: target: iscsi: Fix use-after-free in iscsit_dec_session_usage_count() (CVE-2026-23193)

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

KVM: Don't clobber irqfd routing type when deassigning irqfd (CVE-2026-23198)

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

smb/client: fix memory leak in smb2_open_file() (CVE-2026-23205)

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

macvlan: fix error recovery in macvlan_common_newlink() (CVE-2026-23209)

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

bonding: annotate data-races around slave->last_rx (CVE-2026-23212)

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

scsi: target: iscsi: Fix use-after-free in iscsit_dec_conn_usage_count() (CVE-2026-23216)


Affected Packages:

kernel


Issue Correction:
Run dnf update kernel --releasever 2023.10.20260302 or dnf update --advisory ALAS2023-2026-1468 --releasever 2023.10.20260302 to update your system.
More information on how to update your system can be found on this page: Amazon Linux 2023 documentation

New Packages:
aarch64:
    bpftool-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.aarch64
    kernel-livepatch-6.1.163-186.299-1.0-0.amzn2023.aarch64
    bpftool-debuginfo-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.aarch64
    kernel-modules-extra-common-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.aarch64
    kernel-libbpf-static-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.aarch64
    kernel-libbpf-devel-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.aarch64
    kernel-libbpf-debuginfo-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.aarch64
    kernel-modules-extra-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.aarch64
    kernel-tools-debuginfo-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.aarch64
    python3-perf-debuginfo-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.aarch64
    perf-debuginfo-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.aarch64
    kernel-tools-devel-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.aarch64
    perf-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.aarch64
    python3-perf-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.aarch64
    kernel-headers-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.aarch64
    kernel-libbpf-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.aarch64
    kernel-debuginfo-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.aarch64
    kernel-tools-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.aarch64
    kernel-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.aarch64
    kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.aarch64
    kernel-devel-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.aarch64

src:
    kernel-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.src

x86_64:
    kernel-libbpf-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.x86_64
    kernel-tools-debuginfo-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.x86_64
    kernel-modules-extra-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.x86_64
    kernel-tools-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.x86_64
    python3-perf-debuginfo-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.x86_64
    kernel-modules-extra-common-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.x86_64
    kernel-tools-devel-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.x86_64
    kernel-libbpf-static-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.x86_64
    kernel-libbpf-debuginfo-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.x86_64
    kernel-headers-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.x86_64
    kernel-livepatch-6.1.163-186.299-1.0-0.amzn2023.x86_64
    perf-debuginfo-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.x86_64
    kernel-libbpf-devel-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.x86_64
    perf-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.x86_64
    bpftool-debuginfo-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.x86_64
    bpftool-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.x86_64
    python3-perf-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.x86_64
    kernel-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.x86_64
    kernel-debuginfo-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.x86_64
    kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.x86_64
    kernel-devel-6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023.x86_64