vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2020-29660: ELSA-2021-4356: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (MODERATE) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
2020-12-04
Added
2021-02-04
Modified
2025-01-23

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.
A locking inconsistency issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local user could use this flaw to read numerical value from memory after free.

Solution(s)

oracle-linux-upgrade-kerneloracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-uek
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