Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool, kernel6.12, kernel6.12-modules-extra (ALAS2023-2025-994)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 238280

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2023 host is missing a security update.

Description

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-994 advisory.

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

btrfs: do proper folio cleanup when cow_file_range() failed (CVE-2024-57976)

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

kernel: be more careful about dup_mmap() failures and uprobe registering (CVE-2025-21709)

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

block: fix queue freeze vs limits lock order in sysfs store methods (CVE-2025-21807)

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

block: mark GFP_NOIO around sysfs ->store() (CVE-2025-21817)

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

iommu/vt-d: Avoid use of NULL after WARN_ON_ONCE (CVE-2025-21833)

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

net: better track kernel sockets lifetime (CVE-2025-21884)

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

bnxt_en: Mask the bd_cnt field in the TX BD properly (CVE-2025-22108)

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

ext4: goto right label 'out_mmap_sem' in ext4_setattr() (CVE-2025-22120)

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

net_sched: hfsc: Fix a UAF vulnerability in class handling (CVE-2025-37797)

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

vmxnet3: Fix malformed packet sizing in vmxnet3_process_xdp (CVE-2025-37799)

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

driver core: fix potential NULL pointer dereference in dev_uevent() (CVE-2025-37800)

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

fs/ntfs3: Keep write operations atomic (CVE-2025-37806)

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

crypto: null - Use spin lock instead of mutex (CVE-2025-37808)

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

usb: typec: class: Fix NULL pointer access (CVE-2025-37809)

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

usb: xhci: Fix invalid pointer dereference in Etron workaround (CVE-2025-37813)

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

tty: Require CAP_SYS_ADMIN for all usages of TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT (CVE-2025-37814)

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

irqchip/gic-v2m: Prevent use after free of gicv2m_get_fwnode() (CVE-2025-37819)

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

xen-netfront: handle NULL returned by xdp_convert_buff_to_frame() (CVE-2025-37820)

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

sched/eevdf: Fix se->slice being set to U64_MAX and resulting crash (CVE-2025-37821)

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

net_sched: hfsc: Fix a potential UAF in hfsc_dequeue() too (CVE-2025-37823)

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

btrfs: zoned: return EIO on RAID1 block group write pointer mismatch (CVE-2025-37827)

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

netfs: Only create /proc/fs/netfs with CONFIG_PROC_FS (CVE-2025-37876)

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

iommu: Clear iommu-dma ops on cleanup (CVE-2025-37877)

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

perf/core: Fix WARN_ON(!ctx) in __free_event() for partial init (CVE-2025-37878)

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

usb: xhci: Fix isochronous Ring Underrun/Overrun event handling (CVE-2025-37882)

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

bpf: Fix deadlock between rcu_tasks_trace and event_mutex. (CVE-2025-37884)

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

KVM: x86: Reset IRTE to host control if *new* route isn't postable (CVE-2025-37885)

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

net/mlx5: Fix null-ptr-deref in mlx5_create_{inner_,}ttc_table() (CVE-2025-37888)

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

iommu: Fix two issues in iommu_copy_struct_from_user() (CVE-2025-37900)

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

net_sched: qfq: Fix double list add in class with netem as child qdisc (CVE-2025-37913)

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

net_sched: ets: Fix double list add in class with netem as child qdisc (CVE-2025-37914)

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

net_sched: drr: Fix double list add in class with netem as child qdisc (CVE-2025-37915)

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

xsk: Fix race condition in AF_XDP generic RX path (CVE-2025-37920)

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

tracing: Fix oob write in trace_seq_to_buffer() (CVE-2025-37923)

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

iommu/amd: Fix potential buffer overflow in parse_ivrs_acpihid (CVE-2025-37927)

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

dm-bufio: don't schedule in atomic context (CVE-2025-37928)

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

arm64: errata: Add missing sentinels to Spectre-BHB MIDR arrays (CVE-2025-37929)

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

btrfs: adjust subpage bit start based on sectorsize (CVE-2025-37931)

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

arm64: bpf: Add BHB mitigation to the epilogue for cBPF programs (CVE-2025-37948)

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

xenbus: Use kref to track req lifetime (CVE-2025-37949)

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

KVM: SVM: Forcibly leave SMM mode on SHUTDOWN interception (CVE-2025-37957)

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

mm/huge_memory: fix dereferencing invalid pmd migration entry (CVE-2025-37958)

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

bpf: Scrub packet on bpf_redirect_peer (CVE-2025-37959)

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

memblock: Accept allocated memory before use in memblock_double_array() (CVE-2025-37960)

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

ipvs: fix uninit-value for saddr in do_output_route4 (CVE-2025-37961)

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

arm64: bpf: Only mitigate cBPF programs loaded by unprivileged users (CVE-2025-37963)

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

x86/mm: Eliminate window where TLB flushes may be inadvertently skipped (CVE-2025-37964)

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

net: phy: leds: fix memory leak (CVE-2025-37989)

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

netfilter: ipset: fix region locking in hash types (CVE-2025-37997)

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

openvswitch: Fix unsafe attribute parsing in output_userspace() (CVE-2025-37998)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 238280

File Name: al2023_ALAS2023-2025-994.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 6/12/2025

Updated: 8/4/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-37800

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-modules-extra-common, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3-perf6.12, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel6.12, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-livepatch-6.12.29-33.102, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel6.12-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-libbpf-static, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-libbpf-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel6.12-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-libbpf, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bpftool-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel6.12-debuginfo-common-x86_64, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perf6.12, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-libbpf-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perf6.12-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel6.12-debuginfo-common-aarch64, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-tools-devel, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2023, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bpftool, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3-perf6.12-debuginfo

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/10/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-57976, CVE-2025-21709, CVE-2025-21807, CVE-2025-21817, CVE-2025-21833, CVE-2025-21884, CVE-2025-22108, CVE-2025-22120, CVE-2025-37797, CVE-2025-37799, CVE-2025-37800, CVE-2025-37806, CVE-2025-37808, CVE-2025-37809, CVE-2025-37813, CVE-2025-37814, CVE-2025-37819, CVE-2025-37820, CVE-2025-37821, CVE-2025-37823, CVE-2025-37827, CVE-2025-37876, CVE-2025-37877, CVE-2025-37878, CVE-2025-37882, CVE-2025-37884, CVE-2025-37885, CVE-2025-37888, CVE-2025-37900, CVE-2025-37913, CVE-2025-37914, CVE-2025-37915, CVE-2025-37920, CVE-2025-37923, CVE-2025-37927, CVE-2025-37928, CVE-2025-37929, CVE-2025-37931, CVE-2025-37948, CVE-2025-37949, CVE-2025-37957, CVE-2025-37958, CVE-2025-37959, CVE-2025-37960, CVE-2025-37961, CVE-2025-37963, CVE-2025-37964, CVE-2025-37989, CVE-2025-37997, CVE-2025-37998

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