Amazon Linux 2 : wayland (ALAS-2023-2103)

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2103 advisory. An internal reference count is held on the buffer pool, incremented every time a new buffer is created from the pool. The reference count is maintained as an int; on LP64 systems this can cause the...

Amazon Linux 2 : yajl (ALAS-2023-2101)

The version of yajl installed on the remote host is prior to 2.0.4-4. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2101 advisory. yajl-ruby is a C binding to the YAJL JSON parsing and generation library. The 1.x branch and the 2.x branch of yajl contain an integer...

Amazon Linux 2 : ncurses (ALAS-2023-2096)

The version of ncurses installed on the remote host is prior to 6.0-8.20170212. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2096 advisory. ncurses before 6.4 20230408, when used by a setuid application, allows local users to trigger security- relevant memory...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALASKERNEL-5.15-2023-022)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.117-73.143. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2023-022 advisory. An issue was found in the Linux kernel's IPv6 TCP connection tracking code, which could lead to high CPU usage wit...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALASKERNEL-5.10-2023-035)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.10.184-175.731. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2023-035 advisory. An issue was found in the Linux kernel's IPv6 TCP connection tracking code, which could lead to high CPU usage wi...

Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool, kernel, kernel-devel (ALAS2023-2023-233)

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-233 advisory. An issue was found in the Linux kernel's IPv6 TCP connection tracking code, which could lead to high CPU usage with certain traffic patterns. CVE-2023-1206 Tenable has extracted the preceding descriptio...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALASKERNEL-5.4-2023-048)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.4.247-162.350. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2023-048 advisory. An issue was found in the Linux kernel's IPv6 TCP connection tracking code, which could lead to high CPU usage with...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel, --advisory ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2023-021 (ALASKERNEL-5.15-2023-021)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.117-72.142. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2023-021 advisory. In the Linux kernel through 6.2.7, fs/ntfs3/inode.c has an invalid kfree because it does not validate MFT...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel, --advisory ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2023-047 (ALASKERNEL-5.4-2023-047)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.4.247-161.349. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2023-047 advisory. A flaw was found in the x86 KVM subsystem in kvmstealtimesetpreempted in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux...

Important: kernel-livepatch-4.14.314-237.533

Issue Overview: dotlsgetsockopt in net/tls/tlsmain.c in the Linux kernel through 6.2.6 lacks a locksock call, leading to a race condition with a resultant use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference. CVE-2023-28466 Affected Packages: kernel-livepatch-4.14.314-237.533 Issue Correction: Please ensur...

Important: kernel-livepatch-4.14.314-238.539

Issue Overview: dotlsgetsockopt in net/tls/tlsmain.c in the Linux kernel through 6.2.6 lacks a locksock call, leading to a race condition with a resultant use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference. CVE-2023-28466 Affected Packages: kernel-livepatch-4.14.314-238.539 Issue Correction: Please ensur...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: An issue was found in the Linux kernel's IPv6 TCP connection tracking code, which could lead to high CPU usage with certain traffic patterns. CVE-2023-1206 Affected Packages: kernel Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.15 Extra. Visit this page to learn...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: An issue was found in the Linux kernel's IPv6 TCP connection tracking code, which could lead to high CPU usage with certain traffic patterns. CVE-2023-1206 Affected Packages: kernel Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for...

Important: kernel-livepatch-4.14.311-233.529

Issue Overview: An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel's XFS file system in how a user restores an XFS image after failure with a dirty log journal. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system. CVE-2023-2124...

Amazon Linux 2023 : openssl, openssl-devel, openssl-libs (ALAS2023-2023-222)

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-222 advisory. Issue summary: Processing some specially crafted ASN.1 object identifiers ordata containing them may be very slow. Impact summary: Applications that use OBJobj2txt directly, or use any ofthe OpenSSL...

Amazon Linux 2023 : json-c, json-c-devel (ALAS2023-2023-232)

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-232 advisory. A flaw was found in json-c. In printbufmemappend, certain crafted values can overflow the memory allowing an attacker to write past the memory boundary. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to...

Amazon Linux 2023 : cups, cups-client, cups-devel (ALAS2023-2023-215)

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-215 advisory. OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system. In versions 2.4.2 and prior, a heap buffer overflow vulnerability would allow a remote attacker to launch a denial of service DoS attack. A buffer...

Amazon Linux 2023 : glib2, glib2-devel, glib2-static (ALAS2023-2023-225)

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-225 advisory. The upstream bug report describes this issue as follows: A vulnerability was found in GLib2.0, where DoS caused by handling a malicious text-form variant which is structured to cause looping...

Amazon Linux 2023 : ncurses, ncurses-base, ncurses-c++-libs (ALAS2023-2023-220)

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-220 advisory. ncurses before 6.4 20230408, when used by a setuid application, allows local users to trigger security- relevant memory corruption via malformed data in a terminfo database file that is found in...

Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool, kernel, kernel-devel (ALAS2023-2023-228)

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-228 advisory. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: binder: fix UAF of alloc-vma in race with munmap CVE-2022-50240 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...