Use After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [4.9.0,4.9.233)[4.14,4.14.194)[4.19,4.19.140)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004765
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Sept 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-25220  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.9.233, 4.14.194, 4.19.140 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. The Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.233, 4.14.x before 4.14.194, and 4.19.x before 4.19.140 has a use-after-free because skcd->no_refcnt was not considered during a backport of a CVE-2020-14356 patch. This is related to the cgroups feature.

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