Race Condition Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.4.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005749
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Dec 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-19965  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.4.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition. In the Linux kernel through 5.4.6, there is a NULL pointer dereference in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_discover.c because of mishandling of port disconnection during discovery, related to a PHY down race condition, aka CID-f70267f379b5.

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