ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-015

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-14386  

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. Memory corruption can be exploited to gain root privileges from unprivileged processes. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-14386)

ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-015


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALASKERNEL-5.4-2022-015
Advisory Release Date: 2022-01-20 19:27 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-01-28 17:22 Pacific
Severity: Important
References: CVE-2020-14386 

Issue Overview:

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. Memory corruption can be exploited to gain root privileges from unprivileged processes. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-14386)


Affected Packages:

kernel


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

New Packages:
aarch64:
    kernel-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.aarch64
    kernel-headers-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.aarch64
    kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.aarch64
    perf-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.aarch64
    perf-debuginfo-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.aarch64
    python-perf-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.aarch64
    python-perf-debuginfo-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.aarch64
    kernel-tools-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.aarch64
    kernel-tools-devel-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.aarch64
    kernel-tools-debuginfo-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.aarch64
    kernel-devel-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.aarch64
    kernel-debuginfo-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.aarch64

i686:
    kernel-headers-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.i686

src:
    kernel-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.src

x86_64:
    kernel-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-headers-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.x86_64
    perf-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.x86_64
    perf-debuginfo-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.x86_64
    python-perf-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.x86_64
    python-perf-debuginfo-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-tools-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-tools-devel-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-tools-debuginfo-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-devel-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-debuginfo-5.4.58-32.125.amzn2.x86_64