Use After Free Affecting kernel-livepatch-4_12_14-197_75-default package, versions <2-2.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.47% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-KERNELLIVEPATCH4121419775DEFAULT-2690146
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed10 Feb 2021

Introduced: 10 Feb 2021

CVE-2020-29660  (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-livepatch-4_12_14-197_75-default to version 2-2.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-4_12_14-197_75-default package and not the kernel-livepatch-4_12_14-197_75-default package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

A locking inconsistency issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel through 5.9.13. drivers/tty/tty_io.c and drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c may allow a read-after-free attack against TIOCGSID, aka CID-c8bcd9c5be24.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1