vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2023-4459: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2022-1591)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 9, 2022
Added
Sep 21, 2023
Modified
May 30, 2025

Description

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in vmxnet3_rq_cleanup in drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c in the networking sub-component in vmxnet3 in the Linux Kernel. This issue may allow a local attacker with normal user privilege to cause a denial of service due to a missing sanity check during cleanup.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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