vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2023-6932: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2024-1899)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Dec 19, 2023 | Jan 9, 2024 | May 21, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 19, 2023
Added
Jan 9, 2024
Modified
May 21, 2025
Description
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ipv4: igmp component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.
A race condition can be exploited to cause a timer be mistakenly registered on a RCU read locked object which is freed by another thread.
We recommend upgrading past commit e2b706c691905fe78468c361aaabc719d0a496f1.
Solution
amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
References
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