Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2024-2193: Important priority package update for kernel

A Speculative Race Condition (SRC) vulnerability that impacts modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution (related to Spectre V1) has been disclosed. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to disclose arbitrary data from the CPU using race conditions to access the speculative executable code paths.
A new cache speculation vulnerability, known as Spectre-SRC (Speculative Race Conditions), was found in hw. Spectre-SRC is similar to the Spectre v1 and allows speculative use-after-free. The difference between this issue and Spectre V1 is that this issue is based on synchronization primitives with the possibility to bypass software features such as IPIs and high-precision timers, which may disclose arbitrary data from a privileged component that should not be accessible.