CVE-2020-29660

Description

A locking inconsistency issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel through 5.9.13. drivers/tty/tty_io.c and drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c may allow a read-after-free attack against TIOCGSID, aka CID-c8bcd9c5be24.

References

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-24-074-07

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4843

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0001/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MZ7OAKAEFAXQRGBZK4LYUWINCD3D2XCL/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BOB25SU6XUL4TNP7KB63WNZSYTIYFDPP/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00010.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00018.html

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c8bcd9c5be24fb9e6132e97da5a35e55a83e36b9

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/12/10/1

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164950/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0082-1.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3