CVE-2024-2193 Affecting kernel-livepatch-6.1.79-99.164 package, versions <0:1.0-0.amzn2023


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2023-KERNELLIVEPATCH617999164-6516676
  • published3 Apr 2024
  • disclosed15 Mar 2024

Introduced: 15 Mar 2024

CVE-2024-2193  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2023 kernel-livepatch-6.1.79-99.164 to version 0:1.0-0.amzn2023 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2023-2024-549.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-6.1.79-99.164 package and not the kernel-livepatch-6.1.79-99.164 package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2023 relevant fixed versions and status.

A Speculative Race Condition (SRC) vulnerability that impacts modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution (related to Spectre V1) has been disclosed. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to disclose arbitrary data from the CPU using race conditions to access the speculative executable code paths.

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