vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2023-1206: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2023-1776)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
2023-06-29
Added
2023-07-04
Modified
2025-05-21

Description

A hash collision flaw was found in the IPv6 connection lookup table in the Linux kernel’s IPv6 functionality when a user makes a new kind of SYN flood attack. A user located in the local network or with a high bandwidth connection can increase the CPU usage of the server that accepts IPV6 connections up to 95%.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
NEW

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