vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2020-27815: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C)
Published
Jan 26, 2021
Added
Apr 10, 2021
Modified
Feb 4, 2022

Description

A flaw was found in the JFS filesystem code in the Linux Kernel which allows a local attacker with the ability to set extended attributes to panic the system, causing memory corruption or escalating privileges. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

Solutions

suse-upgrade-cluster-md-kmp-defaultsuse-upgrade-dlm-kmp-defaultsuse-upgrade-gfs2-kmp-defaultsuse-upgrade-kernel-defaultsuse-upgrade-kernel-default-extrasuse-upgrade-kernel-docssuse-upgrade-kernel-obs-buildsuse-upgrade-ocfs2-kmp-default

References

    Title
    Rapid7 Labs

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