Use After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [4.19,5.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006662
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Jan 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Jan 2020

CVE-2020-8428  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free fs/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 5.5 has a may_create_in_sticky use-after-free, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) or possibly obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, aka CID-d0cb50185ae9. One attack vector may be an open system call for a UNIX domain socket, if the socket is being moved to a new parent directory and its old parent directory is being removed.

CVSS Base Scores

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