vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-1012: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2022-1604)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 8, 2022
Added
Jul 8, 2022
Modified
May 21, 2025

Description

A memory leak problem was found in the TCP source port generation algorithm in net/ipv4/tcp.c due to the small table perturb size. This flaw may allow an attacker to information leak and may cause a denial of service problem.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel

References

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