SB2020031335 - Amazon Linux AMI update for kernel



SB2020031335 - Amazon Linux AMI update for kernel

Published: March 13, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2020031335
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-15918)

The vulnerability allows a local authenticated user to execute arbitrary code.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.10. SMB2_negotiate in fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c has an out-of-bounds read because data structures are incompletely updated after a change from smb30 to smb21.


2) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-20096)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within __feat_register_sp() in net/dccp/feat.c, which may cause denial of service, aka CID-1d3ff0950e2b. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.