{"id":47782,"date":"2022-09-03T07:27:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T22:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/usn-5591-4-linux-kernel-aws-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2022-09-03T08:34:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T23:34:09","slug":"usn-5591-4-linux-kernel-aws-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/usn-5591-4-linux-kernel-aws-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"USN-5591-4: Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USN-5591-4: Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerability<\/p>\n<p>It was discovered that the virtual terminal driver in the Linux kernel did<br \/>\nnot properly handle VGA console font changes, leading to an out-of-bounds<br \/>\nwrite. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system<br \/>\ncrash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntu.com\/security\/notices\/USN-5591-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USN-5591-4: Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerability<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>USN-5591-4: Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerability It was discovered that the virtual terminal driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle VGA console font changes, leading to an out-of-bounds write. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. Source: USN-5591-4: Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerability<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[586],"tags":[587],"class_list":["post-47782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu-usn","tag-ubuntu-usn"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47783,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47782\/revisions\/47783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}