vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2025-21759: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2025-1973)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 27, 2025
Added
May 22, 2025
Modified
May 30, 2025

Description

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



ipv6: mcast: extend RCU protection in igmp6_send()



igmp6_send() can be called without RTNL or RCU being held.



Extend RCU protection so that we can safely fetch the net pointer


and avoid a potential UAF.



Note that we no longer can use sock_alloc_send_skb() because


ipv6.igmp_sk uses GFP_KERNEL allocations which can sleep.



Instead use alloc_skb() and charge the net->ipv6.igmp_sk


socket under RCU protection.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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