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Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALASLIVEPATCH-2020-019
Advisory Release Date: 2020-06-10 00:22 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2020-06-17 23:36 Pacific
Severity:
Important
References:
CVE-2019-19319
Issue Overview:
In the Linux kernel 5.0.21, a setxattr operation, after a mount of a crafted ext4 image, can cause a slab-out-of-bounds write access because of an ext4_xattr_set_entry use-after-free in fs/ext4/xattr.c when a large old_size value is used in a memset call. (CVE-2019-19319)
Affected Packages:
kernel-livepatch-4.14.173-137.229
Issue Correction:
Please ensure you have live patching enabled.
Run yum update kernel-livepatch-4.14.173-137.229 to update your system.
New Packages:
src:
kernel-livepatch-4.14.173-137.229-1.0-4.amzn2.src
x86_64:
kernel-livepatch-4.14.173-137.229-1.0-4.amzn2.x86_64
kernel-livepatch-4.14.173-137.229-debuginfo-1.0-4.amzn2.x86_64