Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool, kernel, kernel-devel (ALAS2023-2025-802)

high Nessus Plugin ID 216951

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2023 host is missing a security update.

Description

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-802 advisory.

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

ext4: fix timer use-after-free on failed mount (CVE-2024-49960)

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

net: do not delay dst_entries_add() in dst_release() (CVE-2024-50036)

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

uprobe: avoid out-of-bounds memory access of fetching args (CVE-2024-50067)

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

fs/ntfs3: Additional check in ntfs_file_release (CVE-2024-50242)

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

fs/ntfs3: Check if more than chunk-size bytes are written (CVE-2024-50247)

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

netfilter: Fix use-after-free in get_info() (CVE-2024-50257)

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:

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:

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

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:

virtio_net: Add hash_key_length check (CVE-2024-53082)

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

mm: resolve faulty mmap_region() error path behaviour (CVE-2024-53096)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 216951

File Name: al2023_ALAS2023-2025-802.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 3/1/2025

Updated: 3/1/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-53103

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-modules-extra-common, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perf-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-livepatch-6.1.119-129.201, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3-perf, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-libbpf-static, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-libbpf, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bpftool-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-libbpf-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-tools-devel, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2023, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bpftool, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3-perf-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/16/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-49960, CVE-2024-50036, CVE-2024-50067, CVE-2024-50242, CVE-2024-50247, CVE-2024-50257, CVE-2024-50262, CVE-2024-50264, CVE-2024-50278, CVE-2024-50279, CVE-2024-50301, CVE-2024-53057, CVE-2024-53082, CVE-2024-53096, CVE-2024-53103

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