vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-42328: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2023-1706)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
2022-12-07
Added
2023-04-05
Modified
2025-05-21

Description

Guests can trigger deadlock in Linux netback driver T[his CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.] The patch for XSA-392 introduced another issue which might result in a deadlock when trying to free the SKB of a packet dropped due to the XSA-392 handling (CVE-2022-42328). Additionally when dropping packages for other reasons the same deadlock could occur in case of netpoll being active for the interface the xen-netback driver is connected to (CVE-2022-42329).

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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