vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-38160: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2021-1539)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 7, 2021
Added
Feb 7, 2023
Modified
Mar 2, 2025

Description

In drivers/char/virtio_console.c in the Linux kernel before 5.13.4, data corruption or loss can be triggered by an untrusted device that supplies a buf->len value exceeding the buffer size. NOTE: the vendor indicates that the cited data corruption is not a vulnerability in any existing use case; the length validation was added solely for robustness in the face of anomalous host OS behavior

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel

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