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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-2318: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2022-1624)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-2318: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2022-1624)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
07/06/2022
Created
08/29/2022
Added
08/05/2022
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

There are use-after-free vulnerabilities caused by timer handler in net/rose/rose_timer.c of linux that allow attackers to crash linux kernel without any privileges.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel

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