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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-2588: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2022-1636)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 9, 2022
Added
Oct 11, 2022
Modified
May 21, 2025

Description

It was discovered that the cls_route filter implementation in the Linux kernel would not remove an old filter from the hashtable before freeing it if its handle had the value 0.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel

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