Race Condition Affecting kernel package, versions <0:4.14.209-160.335.amzn2


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-KERNEL-1691808
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed22 Oct 2020

Introduced: 22 Oct 2020

CVE-2020-27675  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 kernel to version 0:4.14.209-160.335.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2020-1566.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel package and not the kernel package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.9.1, as used with Xen through 4.14.x. drivers/xen/events/events_base.c allows event-channel removal during the event-handling loop (a race condition). This can cause a use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference, as demonstrated by a dom0 crash via events for an in-reconfiguration paravirtualized device, aka CID-073d0552ead5.

CVSS Scores

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