Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting kernel package, versions <0:4.14.305-155.531.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-KERNEL-3369565
  • published23 Mar 2023
  • disclosed7 Dec 2022

Introduced: 7 Dec 2022

CVE-2022-3643  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-74  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 kernel to version 0:4.14.305-155.531.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2023-1706.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel package and not the kernel package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

Guests can trigger NIC interface reset/abort/crash via netback It is possible for a guest to trigger a NIC interface reset/abort/crash in a Linux based network backend by sending certain kinds of packets. It appears to be an (unwritten?) assumption in the rest of the Linux network stack that packet protocol headers are all contained within the linear section of the SKB and some NICs behave badly if this is not the case. This has been reported to occur with Cisco (enic) and Broadcom NetXtrem II BCM5780 (bnx2x) though it may be an issue with other NICs/drivers as well. In case the frontend is sending requests with split headers, netback will forward those violating above mentioned assumption to the networking core, resulting in said misbehavior.

CVSS Scores

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