Race Condition Affecting kernel-tools-libs-devel package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELTOOLSLIBSDEVEL-1347213
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 2 Jun 2020
Introduced: 2 Jun 2020
CVE-2020-29374 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 kernel-tools-libs-devel.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools-libs-devel package and not the kernel-tools-libs-devel package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.7.3, related to mm/gup.c and mm/huge_memory.c. The get_user_pages (aka gup) implementation, when used for a copy-on-write page, does not properly consider the semantics of read operations and therefore can grant unintended write access, aka CID-17839856fd58.
References
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0002/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-29374
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162117/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0075-1.html
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2045
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.7.3
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=17839856fd588f4ab6b789f482ed3ffd7c403e1f
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00019.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00020.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096