| Name | CVE-2020-29660 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-2557-1, DLA-2586-1, DSA-4843-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux (PTS) | buster | 4.19.249-2 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 4.19.269-1 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 5.10.158-2 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.162-1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 6.1.15-1 | fixed | |
| sid | 6.1.20-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| linux | source | stretch | 4.9.258-1 | DLA-2586-1 | ||
| linux | source | buster | 4.19.171-2 | DSA-4843-1 | ||
| linux | source | (unstable) | 5.9.15-1 | |||
| linux-4.19 | source | stretch | 4.19.171-2~deb9u1 | DLA-2557-1 |
https://git.kernel.org/linus/c8bcd9c5be24fb9e6132e97da5a35e55a83e36b9
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2125
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/10/how-simple-linux-kernel-memory.html