Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-703)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2016-703)

The Linux kernel did not properly suppress hugetlbfs support in x86 PV guests, which could allow local PV guest users to cause a denial of service guest OS crash by attempting to access a hugetlbfs mapped area. CVE-2016-3961 / XSA-174 A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decod...