ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2020-027

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-14386  

An issue has been reported in the Linux kernel's handling of raw sockets. This issue can be used locally to cause denial of service or local privilege escalation from unprivileged processes or from containers with the CAP_NET_RAW capability enabled. See Also: https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=159915549623724&w=2https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/09/03/3https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2020-14386 (CVE-2020-14386)

ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2020-027


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALASLIVEPATCH-2020-027
Advisory Release Date: 2020-09-04 17:55 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2020-09-10 19:21 Pacific
Severity: Important
References: CVE-2020-14386 

Issue Overview:

An issue has been reported in the Linux kernel's handling of raw sockets. This issue can be used locally to cause denial of service or local privilege escalation from unprivileged processes or from containers with the CAP_NET_RAW capability enabled.

See Also:

https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=159915549623724&w=2
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/09/03/3
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2020-14386 (CVE-2020-14386)


Affected Packages:

kernel-livepatch-4.14.192-147.314


Issue Correction:
Please ensure you have live patching enabled.
Run yum update kernel-livepatch-4.14.192-147.314 to update your system.

New Packages:
src:
    kernel-livepatch-4.14.192-147.314-1.0-2.amzn2.src

x86_64:
    kernel-livepatch-4.14.192-147.314-1.0-2.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-livepatch-4.14.192-147.314-debuginfo-1.0-2.amzn2.x86_64