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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-25211: Security patch for kernel, kernel-livepatch-4.14.192-147.314, kernel-livepatch-4.14.193-149.317 (Multiple Advisories)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-25211: Security patch for kernel, kernel-livepatch-4.14.192-147.314, kernel-livepatch-4.14.193-149.317 (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/09/2020
Created
10/02/2020
Added
10/02/2020
Modified
01/16/2023

Description

In the Linux kernel through 5.8.7, local attackers able to inject conntrack netlink configuration could overflow a local buffer, causing crashes or triggering use of incorrect protocol numbers in ctnetlink_parse_tuple_filter in net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c, aka CID-1cc5ef91d2ff.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-headers
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-4-14-192-147-314
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-4-14-192-147-314-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-4-14-193-149-317
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-4-14-193-149-317-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-4-14-198-152-320
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-4-14-203-156-332
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-tools
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-tools-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-tools-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perf
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perf-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python-perf
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python-perf-debuginfo

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