ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2020-002

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-15918   CVE-2019-20096  

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.10. SMB2_negotiate in fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c has an out-of-bounds read because data structures are incompletely updated after a change from smb30 to smb21.(CVE-2019-15918) In the Linux kernel before 5.1, there is a memory leak in __feat_register_sp() in net/dccp/feat.c, which may cause denial of service, aka CID-1d3ff0950e2b.(CVE-2019-2009)

ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2020-002


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALASLIVEPATCH-2020-002
Advisory Release Date: 2020-03-03 02:24 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2020-04-28 18:37 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.10. SMB2_negotiate in fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c has an out-of-bounds read because data structures are incompletely updated after a change from smb30 to smb21.(CVE-2019-15918)

In the Linux kernel before 5.1, there is a memory leak in __feat_register_sp() in net/dccp/feat.c, which may cause denial of service, aka CID-1d3ff0950e2b.(CVE-2019-2009)


Affected Packages:

kernel-livepatch-4.14.165-133.209


Issue Correction:
Enable the livepatch extra: amazon-linux-extras enable livepatch
Run yum update kernel-livepatch-4.14.165-133.209 to update your system.

New Packages:
src:
    kernel-livepatch-4.14.165-133.209-1.0-3.amzn2.src

x86_64:
    kernel-livepatch-4.14.165-133.209-1.0-3.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-livepatch-4.14.165-133.209-debuginfo-1.0-3.amzn2.x86_64