vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2023-52992: Security patch for kernel (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 27, 2025
Added
May 22, 2025
Modified
May 22, 2025

Description

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

bpf: Skip task with pid=1 in send_signal_common()

The following kernel panic can be triggered when a task with pid=1 attaches
a prog that attempts to send killing signal to itself, also see [1] for more
details:

Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b
CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 6.1.0-09652-g59fe41b5255f #148
Call Trace:

__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x178 lib/dump_stack.c:106
panic+0x2c4/0x60f kernel/panic.c:275
do_exit.cold+0x63/0xe4 kernel/exit.c:789
do_group_exit+0xd4/0x2a0 kernel/exit.c:950
get_signal+0x2460/0x2600 kernel/signal.c:2858
arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x78/0x5d0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:306
exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:168 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x15f/0x250 kernel/entry/common.c:203
__syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:285 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1d/0x50 kernel/entry/common.c:296
do_syscall_64+0x44/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

So skip task with pid=1 in bpf_send_signal_common() to avoid the panic.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]

Solution(s)

amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bpftoolamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bpftool-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernelamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-develamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-headersamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-5-10-167-147-601amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-5-15-93-55-139amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-toolsamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-tools-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-tools-develamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perfamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perf-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python-perfamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python-perf-debuginfo
Title
NEW

Explore Exposure Command

Confidently identify and prioritize exposures from endpoint to cloud with full attack surface visibility and threat-aware risk context.