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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-29661: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2021-1477)

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Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 9, 2020
Added
Jan 27, 2021
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

A locking issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel through 5.9.13. drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c allows a use-after-free attack against TIOCSPGRP, aka CID-54ffccbf053b.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel

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