CVE-2020-29660

A locking inconsistency issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel through 5.9.13

published December 9, 2020

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
40.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00474 · 40.0th percentile
Published
2020-12-09T16:57Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 DEC 16:57Z
    A locking inconsistency issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel through 5.9.13
    cvelistv5