vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-27815: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2021-1477)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C)
Published
Jan 26, 2021
Added
Jan 27, 2021
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

A flaw was found in the JFS filesystem code in the Linux Kernel which allows a local attacker with the ability to set extended attributes to panic the system, causing memory corruption or escalating privileges. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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