vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-3753: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2021-1539)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) | Sep 16, 2021 | Oct 5, 2021 | Oct 14, 2022 |
Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 16, 2021
Added
Oct 5, 2021
Modified
Oct 14, 2022
Description
A race problem was seen in the vt_k_ioctl in drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel, which may cause an out of bounds read in vt as the write access to vc_mode is not protected by lock-in vt_ioctl (KDSETMDE). The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.
Solution
amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
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