CVE-2021-46972

CVE-2021-46972 affects Linux kernel overlayfs (ovl). The issue is a leaked dentry that occurs when metacopy errors happen during unmount, due to overlayfs not creating a temporary dentry after a metacopy error. The fix (commit 6815f479ca90) switches ovl_lookup() to use only the uppermetacopy stat...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALASKERNEL-5.10-2022-001)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.10.35-31.135. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2022-001 advisory. 2024-05-23: CVE-2021-46972 was added to this advisory. 2024-05-23: CVE-2021-46974 was added to this...