Race Condition Affecting kernel-syms package, versions <4.12.14-197.67.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-KERNELSYMS-2698458
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed10 Nov 2020

Introduced: 10 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-27675  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 kernel-syms to version 4.12.14-197.67.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.9.1, as used with Xen through 4.14.x. drivers/xen/events/events_base.c allows event-channel removal during the event-handling loop (a race condition). This can cause a use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference, as demonstrated by a dom0 crash via events for an in-reconfiguration paravirtualized device, aka CID-073d0552ead5.

CVSS Scores

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