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Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-devel-rt  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-KERNELDEVELRT-2694544
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed14 Dec 2020
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Introduced: 14 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-15436  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.1.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-devel-rt package and not the kernel-devel-rt package as distributed by SLES.

Use-after-free vulnerability in fs/block_dev.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service by leveraging improper access to a certain error field.

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