ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2025-277

References: CVE-2022-50500  CVE-2023-53530  CVE-2025-39923 
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity

Issue Overview:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netdevsim: fix memory leak in nsim_drv_probe() when nsim_dev_resources_register() failed (CVE-2022-50500)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: qla2xxx: Use raw_smp_processor_id() instead of smp_processor_id() (CVE-2023-53530)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dmaengine: qcom: bam_dma: Fix DT error handling for num-channels/ees (CVE-2025-39923)

Issue Correction:
Please ensure you have live patching enabled. Run yum update kernel-livepatch-5.10.244-240.965 or yum update --advisory ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2025-277 to update your system.

New Packages:

aarch64:
    kernel-livepatch-5.10.244-240.965-1.0-3.amzn2.aarch64

src:
    kernel-livepatch-5.10.244-240.965-1.0-3.amzn2.src

x86_64:
    kernel-livepatch-5.10.244-240.965-1.0-3.amzn2.x86_64