Information Exposure Affecting kernel-debuginfo package, versions <0:4.14.294-150.533.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-KERNELDEBUGINFO-6229186
  • published6 Feb 2024
  • disclosed12 Jul 2022

Introduced: 12 Jul 2022

CVE-2022-29901  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 kernel-debuginfo to version 0:4.14.294-150.533.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2022-1636.

NVD Description

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

Intel microprocessor generations 6 to 8 are affected by a new Spectre variant that is able to bypass their retpoline mitigation in the kernel to leak arbitrary data. An attacker with unprivileged user access can hijack return instructions to achieve arbitrary speculative code execution under certain microarchitecture-dependent conditions.

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