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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2023-1637: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2022-1591)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2023-1637: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2022-1591)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/31/2022
Created
08/24/2023
Added
08/23/2023
Modified
08/23/2023

Description

A flaw that boot CPU could be vulnerable for the speculative execution behavior kind of attacks in the Linux kernel X86 CPU Power management options functionality was found in the way user resuming CPU from suspend-to-RAM. A local user could use this flaw to potentially get unauthorized access to some memory of the CPU similar to the speculative execution behavior kind of attacks.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel

References

  • ALAS-2022-1591
  • CVE-2023-1637

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