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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-3459: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2019-1201)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-3459: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2019-1201)

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
02/07/2019
Created
05/08/2019
Added
05/07/2019
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

A heap address information leak while using L2CAP_GET_CONF_OPT was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.1-rc1.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel

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