Use After Free Affecting kernel-rt-modules package, versions <0:4.18.0-193.rt13.51.el8


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELRTMODULES-3672491
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed25 Nov 2019

Introduced: 25 Nov 2019

CVE-2020-10690  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 kernel-rt-modules to version 0:4.18.0-193.rt13.51.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:1567.

NVD Description

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

There is a use-after-free in kernel versions before 5.5 due to a race condition between the release of ptp_clock and cdev while resource deallocation. When a (high privileged) process allocates a ptp device file (like /dev/ptpX) and voluntarily goes to sleep. During this time if the underlying device is removed, it can cause an exploitable condition as the process wakes up to terminate and clean all attached files. The system crashes due to the cdev structure being invalid (as already freed) which is pointed to by the inode.

CVSS Scores

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