vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-33200: Security patch for kernel ((Multiple Advisories))
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | May 27, 2021 | Jul 13, 2021 | Jan 7, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 27, 2021
Added
Jul 13, 2021
Modified
Jan 7, 2025
Description
kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel through 5.12.7 enforces incorrect limits for pointer arithmetic operations, aka CID-bb01a1bba579. This can be abused to perform out-of-bounds reads and writes in kernel memory, leading to local privilege escalation to root. In particular, there is a corner case where the off reg causes a masking direction change, which then results in an incorrect final aux->alu_limit.
Solution
amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel

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