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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-20699: Security patch for docker (Multiple Advisories)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-20699: Security patch for docker (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/12/2019
Created
07/16/2022
Added
07/04/2022
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

Docker Engine before 18.09 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (dockerd memory consumption) via a large integer in a --cpuset-mems or --cpuset-cpus value, related to daemon/daemon_unix.go, pkg/parsers/parsers.go, and pkg/sysinfo/sysinfo.go.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-docker
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-docker-debuginfo

References

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