ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2023-110

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-0179  

A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Netfilter subsystem in the Linux Kernel. This issue could allow the leakage of both stack and heap addresses, and potentially allow Local Privilege Escalation to the root user via arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2023-0179)

ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2023-110


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALASLIVEPATCH-2023-110
Advisory Release Date: 2023-03-02 18:07 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-03-08 19:24 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Netfilter subsystem in the Linux Kernel. This issue could allow the leakage of both stack and heap addresses, and potentially allow Local Privilege Escalation to the root user via arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2023-0179)


Affected Packages:

kernel-livepatch-5.10.162-141.675


Issue Correction:
Please ensure you have live patching enabled.
Run yum update kernel-livepatch-5.10.162-141.675 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    kernel-livepatch-5.10.162-141.675-1.0-1.amzn2.aarch64
    kernel-livepatch-5.10.162-141.675-debuginfo-1.0-1.amzn2.aarch64

src:
    kernel-livepatch-5.10.162-141.675-1.0-1.amzn2.src

x86_64:
    kernel-livepatch-5.10.162-141.675-1.0-1.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-livepatch-5.10.162-141.675-debuginfo-1.0-1.amzn2.x86_64