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Test your applicationsUpgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 perf to version 0:4.14.273-140.502.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2022-1577.
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf package and not the perf package as distributed by Amazon-Linux.
See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in linux/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c of the netfilter subsystem. This flaw allows a local user to cause an out-of-bounds write issue.