Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers (opens in a new tab)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-RHEL8-KERNELHEADERS-1345149
- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed16 Oct 2020
Introduced: 16 Oct 2020
CVE-2020-25656 (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-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by RHEL.
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A use-after-free was found in the way the console subsystem was using ioctls KDGKBSENT and KDSKBSENT. A local user could use this flaw to get read memory access out of bounds. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25656
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1888726
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/10/16/84
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/10/29/528
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00027.html
- https://www.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20210325-0006/