ALAS-2025-1961

Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2025-1961
Advisory Release Date: 2025-02-27 23:43 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-03-06 10:26 Pacific
Severity: Important
Issue Overview:

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

tipc: guard against string buffer overrun (CVE-2024-49995)

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

ppp: fix ppp_async_encode() illegal access (CVE-2024-50035)

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

udf: fix uninit-value use in udf_get_fileshortad (CVE-2024-50143)

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

dm cache: fix out-of-bounds access to the dirty bitset when resizing (CVE-2024-50279)

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

scsi: sg: Fix slab-use-after-free read in sg_release() (CVE-2024-56631)

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

tipc: Fix use-after-free of kernel socket in cleanup_bearer(). (CVE-2024-56642)


Affected Packages:

kernel


Issue Correction:
Run yum update kernel to update your system.
System reboot is required in order to complete this update.

New Packages:
i686:
    kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.355-194.598.amzn1.i686
    kernel-tools-4.14.355-194.598.amzn1.i686
    perf-debuginfo-4.14.355-194.598.amzn1.i686
    kernel-tools-devel-4.14.355-194.598.amzn1.i686
    kernel-4.14.355-194.598.amzn1.i686
    kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-4.14.355-194.598.amzn1.i686
    kernel-devel-4.14.355-194.598.amzn1.i686
    perf-4.14.355-194.598.amzn1.i686
    kernel-headers-4.14.355-194.598.amzn1.i686
    kernel-debuginfo-4.14.355-194.598.amzn1.i686

src:
    kernel-4.14.355-194.598.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    kernel-tools-4.14.355-194.598.amzn1.x86_64
    kernel-debuginfo-4.14.355-194.598.amzn1.x86_64
    kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.14.355-194.598.amzn1.x86_64
    perf-4.14.355-194.598.amzn1.x86_64
    kernel-4.14.355-194.598.amzn1.x86_64
    perf-debuginfo-4.14.355-194.598.amzn1.x86_64
    kernel-headers-4.14.355-194.598.amzn1.x86_64
    kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.355-194.598.amzn1.x86_64
    kernel-tools-devel-4.14.355-194.598.amzn1.x86_64
    kernel-devel-4.14.355-194.598.amzn1.x86_64

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2024-49995, CVE-2024-50035, CVE-2024-50143, CVE-2024-50279, CVE-2024-56631, CVE-2024-56642

Mitre: CVE-2024-49995, CVE-2024-50035, CVE-2024-50143, CVE-2024-50279, CVE-2024-56631, CVE-2024-56642