Deadlock Affecting kernel-tools-devel package, versions <0:4.14.273-207.502.amzn2


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-KERNELTOOLSDEVEL-13449885
  • published8 Oct 2025
  • disclosed22 Aug 2024

Introduced: 22 Aug 2024

CVE-2022-48930  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-833  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 kernel-tools-devel to version 0:4.14.273-207.502.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2022-1768.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools-devel package and not the kernel-tools-devel 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:

RDMA/ib_srp: Fix a deadlock

Remove the flush_workqueue(system_long_wq) call since flushing system_long_wq is deadlock-prone and since that call is redundant with a preceding cancel_work_sync()

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1