Red Hat: CVE-2020-29660: CVE-2020-29660 kernel: locking inconsistency in drivers/tty/tty_io.c and drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c can lead to a read-after-free (Multiple Advisories)
2
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
12/09/2020
11/11/2021
11/10/2021
03/13/2024
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.
Solution(s)
- redhat-upgrade-kernel
- redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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