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Debian: CVE-2020-12769: linux -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2020-12769: linux -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
05/09/2020
Created
06/11/2020
Added
06/11/2020
Modified
06/11/2020

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.4.17. drivers/spi/spi-dw.c allows attackers to cause a panic via concurrent calls to dw_spi_irq and dw_spi_transfer_one, aka CID-19b61392c5a8.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-linux

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