Directory Traversal Affecting kernel-docs package, versions <5.3.18-24.46.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-KERNELDOCS-2694435
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed14 Jan 2021

Introduced: 14 Jan 2021

CVE-2020-29373  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 kernel-docs to version 5.3.18-24.46.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-docs package and not the kernel-docs package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.2 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in fs/io_uring.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6. It unsafely handles the root directory during path lookups, and thus a process inside a mount namespace can escape to unintended filesystem locations, aka CID-ff002b30181d.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1