vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-40768: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2022-1645)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 18, 2022
Added
Dec 10, 2022
Modified
May 21, 2025

Description

drivers/scsi/stex.c in the Linux kernel through 5.19.9 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory because stex_queuecommand_lck lacks a memset for the PASSTHRU_CMD case.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel

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