vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-5897: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2017-805)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 22, 2017
Added
Mar 7, 2017
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

The ip6gre_err function in net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c in the Linux kernel allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving GRE flags in an IPv6 packet, which trigger an out-of-bounds access.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
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