vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-0492: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2022-1563)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 4, 2022
Added
Feb 8, 2022
Modified
Jan 31, 2025

Description

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s cgroup_release_agent_write in the kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c function. This flaw, under certain circumstances, allows the use of the cgroups v1 release_agent feature to escalate privileges and bypass the namespace isolation unexpectedly.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
NEW

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