vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-16994: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2017-937)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Nov 27, 2017
Added
Dec 22, 2017
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

The walk_hugetlb_range function in mm/pagewalk.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.2 mishandles holes in hugetlb ranges, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized kernel memory via crafted use of the mincore() system call.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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