vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2015-8839: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2016-703)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | May 2, 2016 | May 18, 2016 | Oct 14, 2022 |
Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 2, 2016
Added
May 18, 2016
Modified
Oct 14, 2022
Description
Multiple race conditions in the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allow local users to cause a denial of service (disk corruption) by writing to a page that is associated with a different user's file after unsynchronized hole punching and page-fault handling.
Solution
amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
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