Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-1942
Advisory Release Date: 2024-06-19 18:46 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-07-31 22:26 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
2024-07-31: CVE-2024-27020 was added to this advisory.
2024-07-31: CVE-2024-26976 was added to this advisory.
2024-07-03: CVE-2023-1077 was added to this advisory.
2024-07-03: CVE-2021-47110 was removed from this advisory.
kernel: Type confusion in pick_next_rt_entity(), which can result in memory corruption. (CVE-2023-1077)
An issue was discovered in arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c in the Linux kernel before 6.2.8. nVMX on x86_64 lacks consistency checks for CR0 and CR4. (CVE-2023-30456)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: Always flush async #PF workqueue when vCPU is being destroyed (CVE-2024-26976)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_tables: Fix potential data-race in __nft_expr_type_get() (CVE-2024-27020)
Affected Packages:
kernel
Issue Correction:
Run yum update kernel to update your system.
i686:
kernel-4.14.348-187.562.amzn1.i686
perf-4.14.348-187.562.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.348-187.562.amzn1.i686
kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-4.14.348-187.562.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-devel-4.14.348-187.562.amzn1.i686
kernel-debuginfo-4.14.348-187.562.amzn1.i686
kernel-headers-4.14.348-187.562.amzn1.i686
kernel-devel-4.14.348-187.562.amzn1.i686
perf-debuginfo-4.14.348-187.562.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-4.14.348-187.562.amzn1.i686
src:
kernel-4.14.348-187.562.amzn1.src
x86_64:
kernel-headers-4.14.348-187.562.amzn1.x86_64
perf-4.14.348-187.562.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-4.14.348-187.562.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-4.14.348-187.562.amzn1.x86_64
perf-debuginfo-4.14.348-187.562.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-devel-4.14.348-187.562.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-devel-4.14.348-187.562.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.14.348-187.562.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-4.14.348-187.562.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.348-187.562.amzn1.x86_64