vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-3923: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2023-1688)

Severity
1
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Feb 22, 2023
Added
Oct 17, 2023
Modified
May 21, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of RDMA over infiniband. An attacker with a privileged local account can leak kernel stack information when issuing commands to the /dev/infiniband/rdma_cm device node. While this access is unlikely to leak sensitive user information, it can be further used to defeat existing kernel protection mechanisms.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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