Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1253
Advisory Release Date: 2019-08-05 17:40 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-08-12 18:10 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
There is a newly discovered variant side-channel attack of Spectre V1 which leverages SWAPGS instructions to bypass KPTI/KVA mitigations. This could lead to a kernel information disclosure
Affected Packages:
kernel
Issue Correction:
Run yum update kernel to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
kernel-headers-4.14.133-88.112.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.133-88.112.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-devel-4.14.133-88.112.amzn1.i686
kernel-debuginfo-4.14.133-88.112.amzn1.i686
perf-4.14.133-88.112.amzn1.i686
perf-debuginfo-4.14.133-88.112.amzn1.i686
kernel-4.14.133-88.112.amzn1.i686
kernel-devel-4.14.133-88.112.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-4.14.133-88.112.amzn1.i686
kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-4.14.133-88.112.amzn1.i686
src:
kernel-4.14.133-88.112.amzn1.src
x86_64:
kernel-debuginfo-4.14.133-88.112.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-devel-4.14.133-88.112.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-4.14.133-88.112.amzn1.x86_64
perf-4.14.133-88.112.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.14.133-88.112.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.133-88.112.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-4.14.133-88.112.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-devel-4.14.133-88.112.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-headers-4.14.133-88.112.amzn1.x86_64
perf-debuginfo-4.14.133-88.112.amzn1.x86_64