SUSE: CVE-2020-8992: SUSE Linux Security Advisory
5
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
02/14/2020
03/06/2020
03/03/2020
02/04/2022
Description
ext4_protect_reserved_inode in fs/ext4/block_validity.c in the Linux kernel through 5.5.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (soft lockup) via a crafted journal size.
Solution(s)
- suse-upgrade-kernel-default
- suse-upgrade-kernel-default-extra
- suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
- suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build
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