Access of Uninitialized Pointer Affecting kernel-livepatch-6.18.20-20.229 package, versions <1:1.0-0.amzn2023


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2023-KERNELLIVEPATCH6182020229-16351128
  • published3 May 2026
  • disclosed3 Apr 2026

Introduced: 3 Apr 2026

CVE-2026-23475  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-824  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2023 kernel-livepatch-6.18.20-20.229 to version 1:1.0-0.amzn2023 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2023-2026-1596.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-6.18.20-20.229 package and not the kernel-livepatch-6.18.20-20.229 package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2023 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

spi: fix statistics allocation

The controller per-cpu statistics is not allocated until after the controller has been registered with driver core, which leaves a window where accessing the sysfs attributes can trigger a NULL-pointer dereference.

Fix this by moving the statistics allocation to controller allocation while tying its lifetime to that of the controller (rather than using implicit devres).

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1