Bottlerocket: bottlerocket-kernel-6.12, kernel-6.12: security update to 6.12.29

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 428253

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: mark GFP_NOIO around sysfs
->store() sysfs ->store is called with queue freezed, meantime we have several ->store()
callbacks(update_nr_requests, wbt, scheduler) to allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL which may run into direct
reclaim code path, then potential deadlock can be caused. Fix the issue by marking NOIO around sysfs
->store() (CVE-2025-21817)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 428253

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: Bottlerocket Local Security Checks

Published: 6/30/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-21817

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-21817

Detections

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