vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-4486: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2016-703)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
May 18, 2016
Added
May 18, 2016
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

The rtnl_fill_link_ifmap function in net/core/rtnetlink.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.5 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading a Netlink message.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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