Use After Free Affecting linux-4.19 package, versions <4.19.171-2~deb9u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-LINUX419-1073742
  • published10 Dec 2020
  • disclosed9 Dec 2020

Introduced: 9 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-29660  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-667  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 linux-4.19 to version 4.19.171-2~deb9u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-4.19 package and not the linux-4.19 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1