vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-3134: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2016-694)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Apr 27, 2016
Added
Apr 28, 2016
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

The netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.5.2 does not validate certain offset fields, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via an IPT_SO_SET_REPLACE setsockopt call.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel

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