vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-28964: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2021-1503)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 22, 2021
Added
May 26, 2021
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

A race condition was discovered in get_old_root in fs/btrfs/ctree.c in the Linux kernel through 5.11.8. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (BUG) because of a lack of locking on an extent buffer before a cloning operation, aka CID-dbcc7d57bffc.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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