CVE-2020-29660
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
AlmaLinux Fixed 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | Fixed | kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-348.el8.x86_64.rpm |
Arch Fixed 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Fixed | 5.9.14.arch1-1 |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 5.9.15-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 5.9.15-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 5.9.15-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 5.9.15-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 5.9.15-1 |
Red Hat Fixed 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | Fixed | — |
References
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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