vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2020-29373: linux -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Nov 28, 2020
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in fs/io_uring.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6. It unsafely handles the root directory during path lookups, and thus a process inside a mount namespace can escape to unintended filesystem locations, aka CID-ff002b30181d.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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