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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-4155: Security patch for kernel, kernel-livepatch-4.14.256-197.484, kernel-livepatch-5.10.82-83.359 (Multiple Advisories)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-4155: Security patch for kernel, kernel-livepatch-4.14.256-197.484, kernel-livepatch-5.10.82-83.359 (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/04/2022
Created
07/16/2022
Added
07/04/2022
Modified
01/16/2023

Description

A data leak flaw was found in the way XFS_IOC_ALLOCSP IOCTL in the XFS filesystem allowed for size increase of files with unaligned size. A local attacker could use this flaw to leak data on the XFS filesystem otherwise not accessible to them.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bpftool
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bpftool-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-headers
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-4-14-256-197-484
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-4-14-256-197-484-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-4-14-262-200-489
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-5-10-82-83-359
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-5-10-82-83-359-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-5-10-93-87-444
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-tools
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-tools-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-tools-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perf
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perf-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python-perf
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python-perf-debuginfo

References

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