vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-29154: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2021-1503)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Apr 8, 2021
Added
May 26, 2021
Modified
May 26, 2021

Description

BPF JIT compilers in the Linux kernel through 5.11.12 have incorrect computation of branch displacements, allowing them to execute arbitrary code within the kernel context. This affects arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c and arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp32.c.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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