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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-25284: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2020-1437)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-25284: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2020-1437)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/13/2020
Created
10/29/2020
Added
10/28/2020
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

The rbd block device driver in drivers/block/rbd.c in the Linux kernel through 5.8.9 used incomplete permission checking for access to rbd devices, which could be leveraged by local attackers to map or unmap rbd block devices, aka CID-f44d04e696fe.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel

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