ALAS-2024-1899

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-6932  

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ipv4: igmp component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. A race condition can be exploited to cause a timer be mistakenly registered on a RCU read locked object which is freed by another thread. We recommend upgrading past commit e2b706c691905fe78468c361aaabc719d0a496f1. (CVE-2023-6932)

ALAS-2024-1899


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-1899
Advisory Release Date: 2024-01-03 22:37 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-01-08 21:23 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ipv4: igmp component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.

A race condition can be exploited to cause a timer be mistakenly registered on a RCU read locked object which is freed by another thread.

We recommend upgrading past commit e2b706c691905fe78468c361aaabc719d0a496f1. (CVE-2023-6932)


Affected Packages:

kernel


Issue Correction:
"Run yum update kernel to update your system.
"

New Packages:
i686:
    perf-debuginfo-4.14.334-177.552.amzn1.i686
    kernel-tools-devel-4.14.334-177.552.amzn1.i686
    kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.334-177.552.amzn1.i686
    kernel-headers-4.14.334-177.552.amzn1.i686
    kernel-4.14.334-177.552.amzn1.i686
    kernel-devel-4.14.334-177.552.amzn1.i686
    kernel-debuginfo-4.14.334-177.552.amzn1.i686
    kernel-tools-4.14.334-177.552.amzn1.i686
    perf-4.14.334-177.552.amzn1.i686
    kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-4.14.334-177.552.amzn1.i686

src:
    kernel-4.14.334-177.552.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    perf-4.14.334-177.552.amzn1.x86_64
    kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.334-177.552.amzn1.x86_64
    kernel-tools-4.14.334-177.552.amzn1.x86_64
    kernel-tools-devel-4.14.334-177.552.amzn1.x86_64
    kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.14.334-177.552.amzn1.x86_64
    kernel-headers-4.14.334-177.552.amzn1.x86_64
    perf-debuginfo-4.14.334-177.552.amzn1.x86_64
    kernel-4.14.334-177.552.amzn1.x86_64
    kernel-devel-4.14.334-177.552.amzn1.x86_64
    kernel-debuginfo-4.14.334-177.552.amzn1.x86_64