Memory Leak Affecting kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 package, versions <0:4.14.353-270.569.amzn2
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- published 1 Nov 2024
- disclosed 30 Aug 2024
Introduced: 30 Aug 2024
CVE-2024-44944 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 to version 0:4.14.353-270.569.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2024-2658.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 package and not the kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 package as distributed by Amazon-Linux.
See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: ctnetlink: use helper function to calculate expect ID
Delete expectation path is missing a call to the nf_expect_get_id() helper function to calculate the expectation ID, otherwise LSB of the expectation object address is leaked to userspace.
References
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-44944
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24f407042cf90b0872de667460230d8d50c06c39
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27662b46f2adaa52c1665a82af4b21c42c4337fd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e2c24f7b0911b15c29aefce760bcf770542fb61
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64c0b8e64be8368617ef08dfc59a3160563a1435
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66e7650dbbb8e236e781c670b167edc81e771450
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74de442b8e12a207c07953ee068009a7701aff8f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/782161895eb4ac45cf7cfa8db375bd4766cb8299
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb4ca1a97e08ff5b920664ba292e576257e2d184
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-24-1182/