vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-5754: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2018-939)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 3, 2018
Added
Jan 4, 2018
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis of the data cache.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel

References

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