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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-29660: Security patch for kernel, kernel-livepatch-4.14.200-155.322, kernel-livepatch-4.14.203-156.332, kernel-livepatch-4.14.209-160.335, kernel-livepatch-4.14.209-160.339 (Multiple Advisories)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-29660: Security patch for kernel, kernel-livepatch-4.14.200-155.322, kernel-livepatch-4.14.203-156.332, kernel-livepatch-4.14.209-160.335, kernel-livepatch-4.14.209-160.339 (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
12/09/2020
Created
01/28/2021
Added
01/27/2021
Modified
01/16/2023

Description

A locking inconsistency issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel through 5.9.13. drivers/tty/tty_io.c and drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c may allow a read-after-free attack against TIOCGSID, aka CID-c8bcd9c5be24.

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-4-14-200-155-322
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-4-14-200-155-322-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-4-14-203-156-332
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-4-14-203-156-332-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-4-14-209-160-335
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-4-14-209-160-335-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-4-14-209-160-339
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-4-14-209-160-339-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-4-14-214-160-339
  • 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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