Red Hat: CVE-2020-29661: CVE-2020-29661 kernel: locking issue in drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c can lead to an use-after-free (Multiple Advisories)
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(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
12/09/2020
02/03/2021
02/03/2021
03/13/2024
Description
A locking issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel through 5.9.13. drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c allows a use-after-free attack against TIOCSPGRP, aka CID-54ffccbf053b.
Solution(s)
- redhat-upgrade-kernel
- redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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