Use After Free Affecting kernel-devel-azure package, versions <4.12.14-8.58.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-KERNELDEVELAZURE-2691906
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed12 Jan 2021

Introduced: 12 Jan 2021

CVE-2020-29661  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-667  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 kernel-devel-azure to version 4.12.14-8.58.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

A locking issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel through 5.9.13. drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c allows a use-after-free attack against TIOCSPGRP, aka CID-54ffccbf053b.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1