Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1222
Advisory Release Date: 2019-06-13 21:37 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-06-17 17:58 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
CVE-2019-11477, CVE-2019-11478 and CVE-2019-11479 describe vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel that can be remotely exploited using a specially crafted TCP connection, crashing the targeted system.
The latest Amazon Linux AMIs as available in AWS EC2 already contain these kernels and are not vulnerable.
Affected Packages:
kernel
Issue Correction:
Run yum update kernel and reboot to update your system.
i686:
kernel-debuginfo-4.14.123-86.109.amzn1.i686
perf-debuginfo-4.14.123-86.109.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-4.14.123-86.109.amzn1.i686
kernel-devel-4.14.123-86.109.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.123-86.109.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-devel-4.14.123-86.109.amzn1.i686
kernel-4.14.123-86.109.amzn1.i686
kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-4.14.123-86.109.amzn1.i686
kernel-headers-4.14.123-86.109.amzn1.i686
perf-4.14.123-86.109.amzn1.i686
src:
kernel-4.14.123-86.109.amzn1.src
x86_64:
kernel-devel-4.14.123-86.109.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-4.14.123-86.109.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-devel-4.14.123-86.109.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-4.14.123-86.109.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-headers-4.14.123-86.109.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.123-86.109.amzn1.x86_64
perf-debuginfo-4.14.123-86.109.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-4.14.123-86.109.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.14.123-86.109.amzn1.x86_64
perf-4.14.123-86.109.amzn1.x86_64