Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-20669: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2020-1401)
7
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
02/18/2019
07/21/2020
07/18/2020
10/14/2022
Description
An issue where a provided address with access_ok() is not checked was discovered in i915_gem_execbuffer2_ioctl in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.19.13. A local attacker can craft a malicious IOCTL function call to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory, resulting in a Denial of Service or privilege escalation.
Solution(s)
- amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
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