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Use After Free Affecting kernel-tools-devel package, versions <0:4.14.214-160.339.amzn2

Severity

 Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN2-KERNELTOOLSDEVEL-1693173
  • published 27 Sep 2021
  • disclosed 9 Dec 2020
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Introduced: 9 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-29660 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-416 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-667 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 kernel-tools-devel to version 0:4.14.214-160.339.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2021-1588.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools-devel package and not the kernel-tools-devel package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

A locking inconsistency issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel through 5.9.13. drivers/tty/tty_io.c and drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c may allow a read-after-free attack against TIOCGSID, aka CID-c8bcd9c5be24.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

4.4 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    High
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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Red Hat

4.4 medium
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SUSE

7.4 high