Use After Free Affecting kernel-default-base package, versions <4.12.14-197.34.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.66% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-KERNELDEFAULTBASE-3254985
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed2 Mar 2020

Introduced: 2 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-8428  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 kernel-default-base to version 4.12.14-197.34.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default-base package and not the kernel-default-base package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

fs/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 5.5 has a may_create_in_sticky use-after-free, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) or possibly obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, aka CID-d0cb50185ae9. One attack vector may be an open system call for a UNIX domain socket, if the socket is being moved to a new parent directory and its old parent directory is being removed.

CVSS Base Scores

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