Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-KERNELHEADERS-2094379
- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed9 Nov 2020
Introduced: 9 Nov 2020
CVE-2020-28974 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:8.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by Centos.
A slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the Linux kernel before 5.9.7 could be used by local attackers to read privileged information or potentially crash the kernel, aka CID-3c4e0dff2095. This occurs because KD_FONT_OP_COPY in drivers/tty/vt/vt.c can be used for manipulations such as font height.
References
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210108-0003/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-28974
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.9.7
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3c4e0dff2095c579b142d5a0693257f1c58b4804
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q4/104
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00027.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/25/1
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1578