vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-27418: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2020-1360)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Apr 23, 2020
Added
Dec 5, 2023
Modified
May 21, 2025

Description

A Use After Free vulnerability in Fedora Linux kernel 5.9.0-rc9 allows attackers to obatin sensitive information via vgacon_invert_region() function.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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