CVE-2024-23851 Affecting kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 package, versions <0:4.14.336-257.562.amzn2


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-KERNELDEBUGINFOCOMMONAARCH64-7447395
  • published13 Jul 2024
  • disclosed23 Jan 2024

Introduced: 23 Jan 2024

CVE-2024-23851  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 to version 0:4.14.336-257.562.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2024-2475.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 package and not the kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

copy_params in drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 6.7.1 can attempt to allocate more than INT_MAX bytes, and crash, because of a missing param_kernel->data_size check. This is related to ctl_ioctl.

CVSS Scores

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