vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-27666: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2022-1581)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
2022-03-23
Added
2022-04-20
Modified
2022-04-20

Description

A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in IPsec ESP transformation code in net/ipv4/esp4.c and net/ipv6/esp6.c. This flaw allows a local attacker with a normal user privilege to overwrite kernel heap objects and may cause a local privilege escalation threat.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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