vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-1000364: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2017-845)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jun 19, 2017
Added
Jun 23, 2017
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

An issue was discovered in the size of the stack guard page on Linux, specifically a 4k stack guard page is not sufficiently large and can be "jumped" over (the stack guard page is bypassed), this affects Linux Kernel versions 4.11.5 and earlier (the stackguard page was introduced in 2010).

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel

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