vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-40490: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2021-1539)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 3, 2021
Added
Oct 5, 2021
Modified
May 21, 2025

Description

A race condition was discovered in ext4_write_inline_data_end in fs/ext4/inline.c in the ext4 subsystem in the Linux kernel through 5.13.13.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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