vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-3348: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2021-1480)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2021-02-01
Added
2021-02-18
Modified
2025-05-21

Description

nbd_add_socket in drivers/block/nbd.c in the Linux kernel through 5.10.12 has an ndb_queue_rq use-after-free that could be triggered by local attackers (with access to the nbd device) via an I/O request at a certain point during device setup, aka CID-b98e762e3d71.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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