Expired Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-cross-headers (opens in a new tab)

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Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELCROSSHEADERS-3972159
published26 Jul 2021
disclosed4 Dec 2020

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Introduced: 4 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-29661 (opens in a new tab) CWE-825 (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-cross-headers package and not the kernel-cross-headers package as distributed by RHEL.

A locking issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel through 5.9.13. drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c allows a use-after-free attack against TIOCSPGRP, aka CID-54ffccbf053b.