| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'kernel' package(s) announced via the ALAS-2016-669 advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
When running as a Xen 64-bit PV guest, user mode processes not supposed to be able to access I/O ports may be granted such permission, potentially resulting in one or more of in-guest privilege escalation, guest crashes (Denial of Service), or in-guest information leaks. (CVE-2016-3157)
In some cases, the kernel did not correctly fix backward jumps in a new eBPF program, which could allow arbitrary reads. (CVE-2016-2383)
The kernel incorrectly accounted for the number of in-flight fds over a unix domain socket to the original opener of the file descriptor. Another process could arbitrarily deplete the original file opener's maximum open files resource limit. (CVE-2016-2550)
A resource-exhaustion vulnerability was found in the kernel, where an unprivileged process could allocate and accumulate far more file descriptors than the process' limit. A local, unauthenticated user could exploit this flaw by sending file descriptors over a Unix socket and then closing them to keep the process' fd count low, thereby creating kernel-memory or file-descriptors exhaustion (denial of service). (CVE-2016-2847)
Affected Software/OS:
'kernel' package(s) on Amazon Linux.
Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).
CVSS Score:
7.2
CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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