Use After Free Affecting kernel-tools-devel package, versions <0:4.14.343-259.562.amzn2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-KERNELTOOLSDEVEL-7710578
  • published20 Aug 2024
  • disclosed3 Apr 2024

Introduced: 3 Apr 2024

CVE-2024-26735  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 kernel-tools-devel to version 0:4.14.343-259.562.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2024-2549.

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:

ipv6: sr: fix possible use-after-free and null-ptr-deref

The pernet operations structure for the subsystem must be registered before registering the generic netlink family.

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