vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2023-7192: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2023-1701)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
2023-03-20
Added
2024-01-23
Modified
2025-05-21

Description

A memory leak problem was found in ctnetlink_create_conntrack in net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c in the Linux Kernel. This issue may allow a local attacker with CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges to cause a denial of service (DoS) attack due to a refcount overflow.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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