vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-6828: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2016-740)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 1, 2016
Added
Jul 1, 2017
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

The tcp_check_send_head function in include/net/tcp.h in the Linux kernel before 4.7.5 does not properly maintain certain SACK state after a failed data copy, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue use-after-free and system crash) via a crafted SACK option.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel

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