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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-44225: Security patch for keepalived (ALAS-2023-2168)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-44225: Security patch for keepalived (ALAS-2023-2168)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
11/26/2021
Created
07/27/2023
Added
07/27/2023
Modified
07/27/2023

Description

In Keepalived through 2.2.4, the D-Bus policy does not sufficiently restrict the message destination, allowing any user to inspect and manipulate any property. This leads to access-control bypass in some situations in which an unrelated D-Bus system service has a settable (writable) property

Solution(s)

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

References

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