Use After Free Affecting perf-debuginfo package, versions <0:4.14.72-68.55.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-PERFDEBUGINFO-1715338
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed26 Jul 2019

Introduced: 26 Jul 2019

CVE-2018-20856  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 perf-debuginfo to version 0:4.14.72-68.55.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2018-1086.

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.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.18.7. In block/blk-core.c, there is an __blk_drain_queue() use-after-free because a certain error case is mishandled.

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