vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-3609: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2021-1539)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jun 23, 2021
Added
Oct 5, 2021
Modified
Jul 14, 2023

Description

.A flaw was found in the CAN BCM networking protocol in the Linux kernel, where a local attacker can abuse a flaw in the CAN subsystem to corrupt memory, crash the system or escalate privileges. This race condition in net/can/bcm.c in the Linux kernel allows for local privilege escalation to root.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel

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