vulnerability

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

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jun 9, 2022
Added
Aug 23, 2023
Modified
May 30, 2025

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

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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