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Race Condition Affecting perf-debuginfo package, versions <0:4.14.51-60.38.amzn1

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.59% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-PERFDEBUGINFO-1714064
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed12 Jun 2018
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Introduced: 12 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-12232  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 perf-debuginfo to version 0:4.14.51-60.38.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2018-1044.

NVD Description

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

In net/socket.c in the Linux kernel through 4.17.1, there is a race condition between fchownat and close in cases where they target the same socket file descriptor, related to the sock_close and sockfs_setattr functions. fchownat does not increment the file descriptor reference count, which allows close to set the socket to NULL during fchownat's execution, leading to a NULL pointer dereference and system crash.