vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-9806: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2016-718)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2016-06-24
Added
2017-01-20
Modified
2022-10-14

Description

Race condition in the netlink_dump function in net/netlink/af_netlink.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (double free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application that makes sendmsg system calls, leading to a free operation associated with a new dump that started earlier than anticipated.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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