Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2024-50088: Important priority package update for kernel

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2024-50088: Important priority package update for kernel

Severity

7

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

10/29/2024

Created

02/05/2025

Added

02/14/2025

Modified

02/14/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix uninitialized pointer free in add_inode_ref() The add_inode_ref() function does not initialize the "name" struct when it is declared.If any of the following calls to "read_one_inode() returns NULL, dir = read_one_inode(root, parent_objectid); if (!dir) { ret = -ENOENT; goto out; } inode = read_one_inode(root, inode_objectid); if (!inode) { ret = -EIO; goto out; } then "name.name" would be freed on "out" before being initialized. out: ... kfree(name.name); This issue was reported by Coverity with CID 1526744.

Solution(s)

• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-bpftool
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-bpftool-debuginfo
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-x86-64
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-devel
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-headers
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-libbpf
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-libbpf-devel
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-libbpf-static
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-6-1-115-126-197
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-modules-extra
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-modules-extra-common
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-tools
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-tools-debuginfo
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-tools-devel
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-perf
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-perf-debuginfo
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-python3-perf
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-python3-perf-debuginfo

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2024-50088
• CVE - 2024-50088
• https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2023/ALAS-2025-794.html