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SUSE: CVE-2020-12657: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2020-12657: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/05/2020
Created
07/10/2020
Added
06/10/2020
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.6.5. There is a use-after-free in block/bfq-iosched.c related to bfq_idle_slice_timer_body.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-cluster-md-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-dlm-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-gfs2-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build
  • suse-upgrade-ocfs2-kmp-default

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