Use After Free Affecting kernel-tools-libs-devel package, versions <0:4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-KERNELTOOLSLIBSDEVEL-3289761
  • published3 Feb 2023
  • disclosed7 Jun 2021

Introduced: 7 Jun 2021

CVE-2020-36385  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 kernel-tools-libs-devel to version 0:4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2021:4056.

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 Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.10. drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c has a use-after-free because the ctx is reached via the ctx_list in some ucma_migrate_id situations where ucma_close is called, aka CID-f5449e74802c.

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