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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-10088: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2017-786)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-10088: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2017-786)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
12/30/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/20/2017
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

The sg implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.9 does not properly restrict write operations in situations where the KERNEL_DS option is set, which allows local users to read or write to arbitrary kernel memory locations or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by leveraging access to a /dev/sg device, related to block/bsg.c and drivers/scsi/sg.c. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-9576.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel

References

  • RHSA-2017:0817
  • RHSA-2017:1842
  • RHSA-2017:2077
  • RHSA-2017:2669
  • ALAS-2017-786
  • 95169
  • 1037538
  • CVE-2016-10088
  • USN-3208-1
  • USN-3208-2
  • USN-3209-1
  • USN-3360-1
  • USN-3360-2
  • DLA-772-1
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