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Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1278
Advisory Release Date: 2019-09-13 22:43 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-09-18 21:24 Pacific
Severity:
Low
References:
CVE-2018-9516
Issue Overview:
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in the hid_debug_events_read() function in the drivers/hid/hid-debug.c file. A lack of the certain checks may allow a privileged user ("root") to achieve an out-of-bounds write and thus receiving user space buffer corruption.(CVE-2018-9516)
Note: The Release Date is incorrect. This CVE was fixed July 2018
Affected Packages:
kernel
Issue Correction:
Run yum update kernel and reboot the instance to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
kernel-headers-4.14.55-62.37.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.55-62.37.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-4.14.55-62.37.amzn1.i686
kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-4.14.55-62.37.amzn1.i686
kernel-devel-4.14.55-62.37.amzn1.i686
perf-debuginfo-4.14.55-62.37.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-devel-4.14.55-62.37.amzn1.i686
perf-4.14.55-62.37.amzn1.i686
kernel-debuginfo-4.14.55-62.37.amzn1.i686
kernel-4.14.55-62.37.amzn1.i686
src:
kernel-4.14.55-62.37.amzn1.src
x86_64:
kernel-4.14.55-62.37.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-4.14.55-62.37.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-devel-4.14.55-62.37.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-devel-4.14.55-62.37.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-4.14.55-62.37.amzn1.x86_64
perf-debuginfo-4.14.55-62.37.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.55-62.37.amzn1.x86_64
perf-4.14.55-62.37.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.14.55-62.37.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-headers-4.14.55-62.37.amzn1.x86_64