vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-29660: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2021-1477)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
2020-12-09
Added
2021-01-27
Modified
2022-10-14

Description

A locking inconsistency issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel through 5.9.13. drivers/tty/tty_io.c and drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c may allow a read-after-free attack against TIOCGSID, aka CID-c8bcd9c5be24.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
NEW

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