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SUSE: CVE-2020-29660: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2020-29660: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
12/09/2020
Created
01/15/2021
Added
01/13/2021
Modified
02/04/2022

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)

  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build

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