CVE-2024-2193 Affecting kernel-tools-devel package, versions <0:4.14.336-257.568.amzn2


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-KERNELTOOLSDEVEL-6745346
  • published1 May 2024
  • disclosed15 Mar 2024

Introduced: 15 Mar 2024

CVE-2024-2193  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 kernel-tools-devel to version 0:4.14.336-257.568.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2024-2525.

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.

A Speculative Race Condition (SRC) vulnerability that impacts modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution (related to Spectre V1) has been disclosed. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to disclose arbitrary data from the CPU using race conditions to access the speculative executable code paths.

CVSS Scores

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