Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Affecting kernel-doc package, versions <0:4.18.0-305.el8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELDOC-3973582
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed9 Sept 2020

Introduced: 9 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-25212  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-367  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 kernel-doc to version 0:4.18.0-305.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2021:1578.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-doc package and not the kernel-doc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

A TOCTOU mismatch in the NFS client code in the Linux kernel before 5.8.3 could be used by local attackers to corrupt memory or possibly have unspecified other impact because a size check is in fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c instead of fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c, aka CID-b4487b935452.

CVSS Scores

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