vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-14991: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2017-914)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) | Oct 3, 2017 | Oct 27, 2017 | Oct 14, 2022 |
Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Oct 3, 2017
Added
Oct 27, 2017
Modified
Oct 14, 2022
Description
The sg_ioctl function in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.4 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized kernel heap-memory locations via an SG_GET_REQUEST_TABLE ioctl call for /dev/sg0.
Solution
amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
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