Improper Handling of Overlap Between Protected Memory Ranges Affecting kernel-livepatch-4.14.345-262.561 package, versions <0:1.0-0.amzn2


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-KERNELLIVEPATCH414345262561-7681809
  • published14 Aug 2024
  • disclosed2 Mar 2024

Introduced: 2 Mar 2024

CVE-2022-48627  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1260  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 kernel-livepatch-4.14.345-262.561 to version 0:1.0-0.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2024-2615.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-4.14.345-262.561 package and not the kernel-livepatch-4.14.345-262.561 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:

vt: fix memory overlapping when deleting chars in the buffer

A memory overlapping copy occurs when deleting a long line. This memory overlapping copy can cause data corruption when scr_memcpyw is optimized to memcpy because memcpy does not ensure its behavior if the destination buffer overlaps with the source buffer. The line buffer is not always broken, because the memcpy utilizes the hardware acceleration, whose result is not deterministic.

Fix this problem by using replacing the scr_memcpyw with scr_memmovew.

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