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Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool, kernel, kernel-devel (ALAS2023-2025-1018)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 240290

Synopsis

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

Description

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-1018 advisory.

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

 mm/vmscan: fix a bug calling wakeup_kswapd() with a wrong zone index (CVE-2024-26783)

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

 ipv6: Fix potential uninit-value access in __ip6_make_skb() (CVE-2024-36903)

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

 ipv4: Fix uninit-value access in __ip_make_skb() (CVE-2024-36927)

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

 bpf, arm64: Fix trampoline for BPF_TRAMP_F_CALL_ORIG (CVE-2024-43840)

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

 btrfs: don't BUG_ON() when 0 reference count at btrfs_lookup_extent_info() (CVE-2024-46751)

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

 sctp: add mutual exclusion in proc_sctp_do_udp_port() (CVE-2025-22062)

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.

Solution

Run 'dnf update kernel --releasever 2023.7.20250609' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-22062.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-46751.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-26783.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-36903.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-36927.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-43840.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2023/ALAS-2025-1018.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 240290

File Name: al2023_ALAS2023-2025-1018.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/23/2025

Updated: 6/23/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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-2025-22062

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

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-modules-extra-common, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perf-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-livepatch-6.1.140-154.222, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3-perf, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-libbpf-static, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-libbpf-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-libbpf, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bpftool-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-libbpf-devel, 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:perf, 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:kernel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3-perf-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/23/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/4/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-26783, CVE-2024-36903, CVE-2024-36927, CVE-2024-43840, CVE-2024-46751, CVE-2025-22062