ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2023-134

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-3090  

A heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Linux Kernel ipvlan network driver can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. The out-of-bounds write is caused by missing skb->cb initialization in the ipvlan network driver. The vulnerability is reachable if CONFIG_IPVLAN is enabled. We recommend upgrading past commit 90cbed5247439a966b645b34eb0a2e037836ea8e. (CVE-2023-3090)

ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2023-134


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALASLIVEPATCH-2023-134
Advisory Release Date: 2023-08-17 17:03 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-08-23 00:12 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

A heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Linux Kernel ipvlan network driver can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.

The out-of-bounds write is caused by missing skb->cb initialization in the ipvlan network driver. The vulnerability is reachable if CONFIG_IPVLAN is enabled.


We recommend upgrading past commit 90cbed5247439a966b645b34eb0a2e037836ea8e. (CVE-2023-3090)


Affected Packages:

kernel-livepatch-4.14.314-238.539


Issue Correction:
Please ensure you have live patching enabled.
Run yum update kernel-livepatch-4.14.314-238.539 to update your system.

New Packages:
src:
    kernel-livepatch-4.14.314-238.539-1.0-2.amzn2.src

x86_64:
    kernel-livepatch-4.14.314-238.539-1.0-2.amzn2.x86_64
    kernel-livepatch-4.14.314-238.539-debuginfo-1.0-2.amzn2.x86_64