vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-9242: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2017-846)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 26, 2017
Added
Jun 23, 2017
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

The __ip6_append_data function in net/ipv6/ip6_output.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.3 is too late in checking whether an overwrite of an skb data structure may occur, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via crafted system calls.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
NEW

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