Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALASKERNEL-5.4-2025-090)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 214613

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.4.286-201.385. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2025-090 advisory.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

inet: inet_defrag: prevent sk release while still in use (CVE-2024-26921)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: bridge: xmit: make sure we have at least eth header len bytes (CVE-2024-38538)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ftrace: Fix possible use-after-free issue in ftrace_location() (CVE-2024-38588)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

crypto: aead,cipher - zeroize key buffer after use (CVE-2024-42229)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

USB: usbtmc: prevent kernel-usb-infoleak (CVE-2024-47671)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm: avoid leaving partial pfn mappings around in error case (CVE-2024-47674)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vfs: fix race between evice_inodes() and find_inode()&iput() (CVE-2024-47679)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tcp: check skb is non-NULL in tcp_rto_delta_us() (CVE-2024-47684)

syzbot reported that nf_reject_ip6_tcphdr_put() was possibly sending garbage on the four reserved tcp bits (th->res1)

Use skb_put_zero() to clear the whole TCP header, as done in nf_reject_ip_tcphdr_put() (CVE-2024-47685)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfsd: return -EINVAL when namelen is 0 (CVE-2024-47692)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/iwcm: Fix WARNING:at_kernel/workqueue.c:#check_flush_dependency (CVE-2024-47696)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nilfs2: fix potential null-ptr-deref in nilfs_btree_insert() (CVE-2024-47699)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: avoid OOB when system.data xattr changes underneath the filesystem (CVE-2024-47701)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

block, bfq: fix possible UAF for bfqq->bic with merge chain (CVE-2024-47706)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

can: bcm: Clear bo->bcm_proc_read after remove_proc_entry(). (CVE-2024-47709)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sock_map: Add a cond_resched() in sock_hash_free() (CVE-2024-47710)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfsd: call cache_put if xdr_reserve_space returns NULL (CVE-2024-47737)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

firmware_loader: Block path traversal (CVE-2024-47742)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/cxgb4: Added NULL check for lookup_atid (CVE-2024-47749)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nilfs2: fix potential oob read in nilfs_btree_check_delete() (CVE-2024-47757)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tpm: Clean up TPM space after command failure (CVE-2024-49851)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ACPI: sysfs: validate return type of _STR method (CVE-2024-49860)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: wait for fixup workers before stopping cleaner kthread during umount (CVE-2024-49867)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: fix a NULL pointer dereference when failed to start a new trasacntion (CVE-2024-49868)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

resource: fix region_intersects() vs add_memory_driver_managed() (CVE-2024-49878)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: fix double brelse() the buffer of the extents path (CVE-2024-49882)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: aovid use-after-free in ext4_ext_insert_extent() (CVE-2024-49883)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sctp: set sk_state back to CLOSED if autobind fails in sctp_listen_start (CVE-2024-49944)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: add more sanity checks to qdisc_pkt_len_init() (CVE-2024-49948)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: avoid potential underflow in qdisc_pkt_len_init() with UFO (CVE-2024-49949)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nf_tables: prevent nf_skb_duplicated corruption (CVE-2024-49952)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ACPI: battery: Fix possible crash when unregistering a battery hook (CVE-2024-49955)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ocfs2: fix null-ptr-deref when journal load failed. (CVE-2024-49957)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

jbd2: stop waiting for space when jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail() returns error (CVE-2024-49959)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

r8169: add tally counter fields added with RTL8125 (CVE-2024-49973)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

uprobes: fix kernel info leak via [uprobes] vma (CVE-2024-49975)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tipc: guard against string buffer overrun (CVE-2024-49995)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cifs: Fix buffer overflow when parsing NFS reparse points (CVE-2024-49996)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: fix i_data_sem unlock order in ext4_ind_migrate() (CVE-2024-50006)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: Fix an unsafe loop on the list (CVE-2024-50024)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

slip: make slhc_remember() more robust against malicious packets (CVE-2024-50033)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ppp: fix ppp_async_encode() illegal access (CVE-2024-50035)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/sched: accept TCA_STAB only for root qdisc (CVE-2024-50039)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

igb: Do not bring the device up after non-fatal error (CVE-2024-50040)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: RFCOMM: FIX possible deadlock in rfcomm_sk_state_change (CVE-2024-50044)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: br_netfilter: fix panic with metadata_dst skb (CVE-2024-50045)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

blk-rq-qos: fix crash on rq_qos_wait vs. rq_qos_wake_function race (CVE-2024-50082)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

arm64: probes: Remove broken LDR (literal) uprobe support (CVE-2024-50099)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nilfs2: fix kernel bug due to missing clearing of buffer delay flag (CVE-2024-50116)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: sched: fix use-after-free in taprio_change() (CVE-2024-50127)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tracing: Consider the NULL character when validating the event length (CVE-2024-50131)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/vboxvideo: Replace fake VLA at end of vbva_mouse_pointer_shape with real VLA (CVE-2024-50134)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xfrm: validate new SA's prefixlen using SA family when sel.family is unset (CVE-2024-50142)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

udf: fix uninit-value use in udf_get_fileshortad (CVE-2024-50143)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

usb: typec: altmode should keep reference to parent (CVE-2024-50150)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: client: fix OOBs when building SMB2_IOCTL request (CVE-2024-50151)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ceph: remove the incorrect Fw reference check when dirtying pages (CVE-2024-50179)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

arm64: probes: Fix uprobes for big-endian kernels (CVE-2024-50194)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

posix-clock: Fix missing timespec64 check in pc_clock_settime() (CVE-2024-50195)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/swapfile: skip HugeTLB pages for unuse_vma (CVE-2024-50199)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nilfs2: propagate directory read errors from nilfs_find_entry() (CVE-2024-50202)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nilfs2: fix potential deadlock with newly created symlinks (CVE-2024-50229)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nilfs2: fix kernel bug due to missing clearing of checked flag (CVE-2024-50230)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nft_payload: sanitize offset and length before calling skb_checksum() (CVE-2024-50251)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Fix out-of-bounds write in trie_get_next_key() (CVE-2024-50262)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vsock/virtio: Initialization of the dangling pointer occurring in vsk->trans (CVE-2024-50264)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

USB: serial: io_edgeport: fix use after free in debug printk (CVE-2024-50267)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: reinitialize delayed ref list after deleting it from the list (CVE-2024-50273)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dm cache: fix potential out-of-bounds access on the first resume (CVE-2024-50278)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dm cache: fix out-of-bounds access to the dirty bitset when resizing (CVE-2024-50279)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sctp: properly validate chunk size in sctp_sf_ootb() (CVE-2024-50299)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

security/keys: fix slab-out-of-bounds in key_task_permission (CVE-2024-50301)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: core: zero-initialize the report buffer Since the report buffer is used by all kinds of drivers in various ways, let's zero-initialize it during allocation to make sure that it can't be ever used to leak kernel memory via specially-crafted report. (CVE-2024-50302)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/sched: stop qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog on TC_H_ROOT (CVE-2024-53057)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfs: Fix KMSAN warning in decode_getfattr_attrs() (CVE-2024-53066)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: client: Fix use-after-free of network namespace. (CVE-2024-53095)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hv_sock: Initializing vsk->trans to NULL to prevent a dangling pointer (CVE-2024-53103)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Run 'yum update kernel' to update your system.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 214613

File Name: al2_ALASKERNEL-5_4-2025-090.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 1/24/2025

Updated: 3/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-47685

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bpftool, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perf-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python-perf-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-headers, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bpftool-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-tools-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python-perf

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/21/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2024

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 3/25/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-26921, CVE-2024-38538, CVE-2024-38588, CVE-2024-42229, CVE-2024-47671, CVE-2024-47674, CVE-2024-47679, CVE-2024-47684, CVE-2024-47685, CVE-2024-47692, CVE-2024-47696, CVE-2024-47699, CVE-2024-47701, CVE-2024-47706, CVE-2024-47709, CVE-2024-47710, CVE-2024-47737, CVE-2024-47742, CVE-2024-47749, CVE-2024-47757, CVE-2024-49851, CVE-2024-49860, CVE-2024-49867, CVE-2024-49868, CVE-2024-49878, CVE-2024-49882, CVE-2024-49883, CVE-2024-49944, CVE-2024-49948, CVE-2024-49949, CVE-2024-49952, CVE-2024-49955, CVE-2024-49957, CVE-2024-49959, CVE-2024-49973, CVE-2024-49975, CVE-2024-49995, CVE-2024-49996, CVE-2024-50006, CVE-2024-50024, CVE-2024-50033, CVE-2024-50035, CVE-2024-50039, CVE-2024-50040, CVE-2024-50044, CVE-2024-50045, CVE-2024-50082, CVE-2024-50099, CVE-2024-50116, CVE-2024-50127, CVE-2024-50131, CVE-2024-50134, CVE-2024-50142, CVE-2024-50143, CVE-2024-50150, CVE-2024-50151, CVE-2024-50179, CVE-2024-50194, CVE-2024-50195, CVE-2024-50199, CVE-2024-50202, CVE-2024-50229, CVE-2024-50230, CVE-2024-50251, CVE-2024-50262, CVE-2024-50264, CVE-2024-50267, CVE-2024-50273, CVE-2024-50278, CVE-2024-50279, CVE-2024-50299, CVE-2024-50301, CVE-2024-50302, CVE-2024-53057, CVE-2024-53066, CVE-2024-53095, CVE-2024-53103

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