vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2025-21762: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2025-1970)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 27, 2025
Added
Apr 18, 2025
Modified
May 21, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:



arp: use RCU protection in arp_xmit()



arp_xmit() can be called without RTNL or RCU protection.



Use RCU protection to avoid potential UAF.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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