vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-12134: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2017-897)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | 2017-08-23 | 2017-09-18 | 2022-10-14 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2017-08-23
Added
2017-09-18
Modified
2022-10-14
Description
The xen_biovec_phys_mergeable function in drivers/xen/biomerge.c in Xen might allow local OS guest users to corrupt block device data streams and consequently obtain sensitive memory information, cause a denial of service, or gain host OS privileges by leveraging incorrect block IO merge-ability calculation.
Solution
amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
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