vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-35477: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2021-1539)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 2, 2021
Added
Mar 19, 2024
Modified
Mar 19, 2024

Description

In the Linux kernel through 5.13.7, an unprivileged BPF program can obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a Speculative Store Bypass side-channel attack because a certain preempting store operation does not necessarily occur before a store operation that has an attacker-controlled value.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
NEW

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