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CVE-2020-29661

Updated on 09 Dec 2020

Severity

7.8 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.8
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

A locking issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel through 5.9.13. drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c allows a use-after-free attack against TIOCSPGRP, aka CID-54ffccbf053b.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 8 , Amazon Linux 1 , Amazon Linux 2 , CentOS 6 , CentOS 6 ALT , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 6 plus , CentOS 7 , CentOS 7 ALT , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 7 plus , CentOS 8 , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CloudLinux 6 ELS , CloudLinux OS 6 , CloudLinux OS 6h , CloudLinux OS 7 , CloudLinux OS 7h , CloudLinux OS 8 , Debian 10 , Debian 10 cloud , Debian 9 , Endurance 6 elrepo , Endurance 7 eig 3.10 , Endurance 7 eig 4.14 , OEL 6 Dell , OEL 7 Dell , OEL 8 Dell , OpenVZ 6 , Oracle Linux 6 , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 , Oracle Linux 8 , Proofpoint , Proxmox VE 5 , Proxmox VE 6 , RHEL 6 , RHEL 7 , RHEL 8 , Rocky Linux 8 , Scientific 6 , Ubuntu 14.04 , Ubuntu 14.04 ESM , Ubuntu 16.04 , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ESM , Ubuntu 18.04 , Ubuntu 20.04 , Upstream 4.14 , Upstream 4.19 , Upstream 4.4 , Upstream 4.9
Affected packages:
kernel @ 3.10.0 (+82 more)
A locking issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel through 5.9.13. drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c allows a use-after-free attack against TIOCSPGRP, aka CID-54ffccbf053b.

Fixes