vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-36946: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2022-1636)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jul 27, 2022
Added
Oct 11, 2022
Modified
May 21, 2025

Description

nfqnl_mangle in net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c in the Linux kernel through 5.18.14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) because, in the case of an nf_queue verdict with a one-byte nfta_payload attribute, an skb_pull can encounter a negative skb->len.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel

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