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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2024-35962: Security patch for kernel (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 20, 2024
Added
May 22, 2025
Modified
May 20, 2026

Description

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

netfilter: complete validation of user input

In my recent commit, I missed that do_replace() handlers
use copy_from_sockptr() (which I fixed), followed
by unsafe copy_from_sockptr_offset() calls.

In all functions, we can perform the @optlen validation
before even calling xt_alloc_table_info() with the following
check:

if ((u64)optlen < (u64)tmp.size + sizeof(tmp))
return -EINVAL;

Solutions

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