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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2024-36129: Security patch for amazon-cloudwatch-agent (ALAS-2024-2630)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2024-36129: Security patch for amazon-cloudwatch-agent (ALAS-2024-2630)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/05/2024
Created
09/07/2024
Added
09/06/2024
Modified
09/06/2024

Description

The OpenTelemetry Collector offers a vendor-agnostic implementation on how to receive, process and export telemetry data. An unsafe decompression vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the collector via excessive memory consumption. OTel Collector version 0.102.1 fixes this issue. It is also fixed in the confighttp module version 0.102.0 and configgrpc module version 0.102.1.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-amazon-cloudwatch-agent

References

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