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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2023-2269: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2023-1773)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2023-2269: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2023-1773)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/25/2023
Created
07/05/2023
Added
07/04/2023
Modified
07/04/2023

Description

A denial of service problem was found, due to a possible recursive locking scenario, resulting in a deadlock in table_clear in drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c in the Linux Kernel Device Mapper-Multipathing sub-component.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel

References

  • ALAS-2023-1773
  • CVE-2023-2269

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