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Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2016-648
Advisory Release Date: 2016-02-09 13:30 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2016-02-09 13:30 Pacific
The Linux kernel before 4.4.1 allows local users to bypass file-descriptor limits and cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by sending each descriptor over a UNIX socket before closing it, related to net/unix/af_unix.c and net/unix/garbage.c. (CVE-2013-4312)
A race condition in the tty_ioctl function in drivers/tty/tty_io.c in the Linux kernel through 4.4.1 was found that allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) by making a TIOCGETD ioctl call during processing of a TIOCSETD ioctl call. (CVE-2016-0723)
A privilege-escalation vulnerability was discovered in the Linux kernel built with User Namespace (CONFIG_USER_NS) support. The flaw occurred when the ptrace() system call was used on a root-owned process to enter a user namespace. A privileged namespace user could exploit this flaw to potentially escalate their privileges on the system, outside the original namespace. (CVE-2015-8709)
net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c in the Linux kernel before 4.3 does not properly manage the relationship between a lock and a socket, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via a crafted sctp_accept call. (CVE-2015-8767)
Affected Packages:
kernel
Issue Correction:
Run yum clean all followed by yum update kernel to update your system. You will need to reboot your system in order for the new kernel to be running.
i686:
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.1.17-22.30.amzn1.i686
kernel-devel-4.1.17-22.30.amzn1.i686
perf-4.1.17-22.30.amzn1.i686
perf-debuginfo-4.1.17-22.30.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-4.1.17-22.30.amzn1.i686
kernel-headers-4.1.17-22.30.amzn1.i686
kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-4.1.17-22.30.amzn1.i686
kernel-debuginfo-4.1.17-22.30.amzn1.i686
kernel-4.1.17-22.30.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-devel-4.1.17-22.30.amzn1.i686
noarch:
kernel-doc-4.1.17-22.30.amzn1.noarch
src:
kernel-4.1.17-22.30.amzn1.src
x86_64:
kernel-debuginfo-4.1.17-22.30.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-devel-4.1.17-22.30.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-4.1.17-22.30.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-4.1.17-22.30.amzn1.x86_64
perf-debuginfo-4.1.17-22.30.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-devel-4.1.17-22.30.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.1.17-22.30.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.1.17-22.30.amzn1.x86_64
perf-4.1.17-22.30.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-headers-4.1.17-22.30.amzn1.x86_64