vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: ALAS-2019-1253: Security patch for kernel

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 6, 2019
Added
Aug 7, 2019
Modified
Feb 19, 2025

Description

There is a newly discovered variant side-channel attack of Spectre V1 which leverages SWAPGS instructions to bypass KPTI/KVA mitigations. This could lead to a kernel information disclosure

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
NEW

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