Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2024-42252: Important priority package update for kernel

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2024-42252: Important priority package update for kernel

Severity

5

CVSS

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

Published

08/08/2024

Created

02/05/2025

Added

02/14/2025

Modified

02/14/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: closures: Change BUG_ON() to WARN_ON() If a BUG_ON() can be hit in the wild, it shouldn't be a BUG_ON() For reference, this has popped up once in the CI, and we'll need more info to debug it: 03240 ------------[ cut here ]------------ 03240 kernel BUG at lib/closure.c:21! 03240 kernel BUG at lib/closure.c:21! 03240 Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP 03240 Modules linked in: 03240 CPU: 15 PID: 40534 Comm: kworker/u80:1 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc4-ktest-ga56da69799bd #25570 03240 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) 03240 Workqueue: btree_update btree_interior_update_work 03240 pstate: 00001005 (nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT +SSBS BTYPE=--) 03240 pc : closure_put+0x224/0x2a0 03240 lr : closure_put+0x24/0x2a0 03240 sp : ffff0000d12071c0 03240 x29: ffff0000d12071c0 x28: dfff800000000000 x27: ffff0000d1207360 03240 x26: 0000000000000040 x25: 0000000000000040 x24: 0000000000000040 03240 x23: ffff0000c1f20180 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: ffff0000c1f20168 03240 x20: 0000000040000000 x19: ffff0000c1f20140 x18: 0000000000000001 03240 x17: 0000000000003aa0 x16: 0000000000003ad0 x15: 1fffe0001c326974 03240 x14: 0000000000000a1e x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 1fffe000183e402d 03240 x11: ffff6000183e402d x10: dfff800000000000 x9 : ffff6000183e402e 03240 x8 : 0000000000000001 x7 : 00009fffe7c1bfd3 x6 : ffff0000c1f2016b 03240 x5 : ffff0000c1f20168 x4 : ffff6000183e402e x3 : ffff800081391954 03240 x2 : 0000000000000001 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 00000000a8000000 03240 Call trace: 03240closure_put+0x224/0x2a0 03240bch2_check_for_deadlock+0x910/0x1028 03240bch2_six_check_for_deadlock+0x1c/0x30 03240six_lock_slowpath.isra.0+0x29c/0xed0 03240six_lock_ip_waiter+0xa8/0xf8 03240__bch2_btree_node_lock_write+0x14c/0x298 03240bch2_trans_lock_write+0x6d4/0xb10 03240__bch2_trans_commit+0x135c/0x5520 03240btree_interior_update_work+0x1248/0x1c10 03240process_scheduled_works+0x53c/0xd90 03240worker_thread+0x370/0x8c8 03240kthread+0x258/0x2e8 03240ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 03240 Code: aa1303e0 d63f0020 a94363f7 17ffff8c (d4210000) 03240 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- 03240 Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops - BUG: Fatal exception 03240 SMP: stopping secondary CPUs 03241 SMP: failed to stop secondary CPUs 13,15 03241 Kernel Offset: disabled 03241 CPU features: 0x00,00000003,80000008,4240500b 03241 Memory Limit: none 03241 ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops - BUG: Fatal exception ]--- 03246 ========= FAILED TIMEOUT copygc_torture_no_checksum in 7200s

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-6-1-124-134-200
• 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-2024-42252
• CVE - 2024-42252
• https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2023/ALAS-2025-809.html