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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-15918: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2020-1349)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-15918: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2020-1349)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/04/2019
Created
03/17/2020
Added
03/14/2020
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.10. SMB2_negotiate in fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c has an out-of-bounds read because data structures are incompletely updated after a change from smb30 to smb21.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel

References

  • ALAS-2020-1349
  • USN-4162-1
  • USN-4162-2
  • CVE-2019-15918

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