vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2024-49860: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2025-1960)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 21, 2024
Added
Feb 19, 2025
Modified
May 21, 2025

Description

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



ACPI: sysfs: validate return type of _STR method



Only buffer objects are valid return values of _STR.



If something else is returned description_show() will access invalid


memory.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
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