Amazon Linux 1 (EOL) Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-897
Advisory Released Date: 2017-09-18
Advisory Updated Date: 2017-09-18
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
The xen_biovec_phys_mergeable function in drivers/xen/biomerge.c in Xen might allow local OS guest users to corrupt block device data streams and consequently obtain sensitive memory information, cause a denial of service, or gain host OS privileges by leveraging incorrect block IO merge-ability calculation. (CVE-2017-12134)
Affected Packages:
kernel
Issue Correction:
Run yum update kernel to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
kernel-devel-4.9.43-17.39.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-4.9.43-17.39.amzn1.i686
perf-debuginfo-4.9.43-17.39.amzn1.i686
kernel-headers-4.9.43-17.39.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-devel-4.9.43-17.39.amzn1.i686
perf-4.9.43-17.39.amzn1.i686
kernel-debuginfo-4.9.43-17.39.amzn1.i686
kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-4.9.43-17.39.amzn1.i686
kernel-4.9.43-17.39.amzn1.i686
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.9.43-17.39.amzn1.i686
noarch:
kernel-doc-4.9.43-17.39.amzn1.noarch
src:
kernel-4.9.43-17.39.amzn1.src
x86_64:
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.9.43-17.39.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-4.9.43-17.39.amzn1.x86_64
perf-debuginfo-4.9.43-17.39.amzn1.x86_64
perf-4.9.43-17.39.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-devel-4.9.43-17.39.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.9.43-17.39.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-headers-4.9.43-17.39.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-devel-4.9.43-17.39.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-4.9.43-17.39.amzn1.x86_64
kernel-4.9.43-17.39.amzn1.x86_64