CVE-2020-29661: 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.

Overview

Severity
High (CVSS 7.8)
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploit Status
Not Exploited
Patch Tuesday
2020-Dec
Released
2020-12-10
EPSS Score
1.13% (percentile: 62.6%)

Detection & Weaponization (1 sources)

Maturity: Exploit

  • GitHub PoC: 1 repositories

Affected Products (1)

Mariner

  • cm1 kernel 5.4.91-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0

Revision History

  • 2020-12-10: Information published.