Race Condition Affecting kernel-syms-azure package, versions <5.3.18-18.29.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.45% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-KERNELSYMSAZURE-2695498
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed8 Dec 2020

Introduced: 8 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-29369  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 kernel-syms-azure to version 5.3.18-18.29.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

An issue was discovered in mm/mmap.c in the Linux kernel before 5.7.11. There is a race condition between certain expand functions (expand_downwards and expand_upwards) and page-table free operations from an munmap call, aka CID-246c320a8cfe.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1