vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2023-1077: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2024-1942)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Mar 27, 2023
Added
Jul 4, 2024
Modified
May 21, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, pick_next_rt_entity() may return a type confused entry, not detected by the BUG_ON condition, as the confused entry will not be NULL, but list_head.The buggy error condition would lead to a type confused entry with the list head,which would then be used as a type confused sched_rt_entity,causing memory corruption.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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