| Name | CVE-2020-29661 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-2557-1, DLA-2586-1, DSA-4843-1 |
| NVD severity | high |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux (PTS) | stretch | 4.9.228-1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 4.9.272-2 | fixed | |
| buster | 4.19.194-1 | fixed | |
| buster (security) | 4.19.194-3 | fixed | |
| bookworm, sid, bullseye | 5.10.46-4 | fixed | |
| linux-4.19 (PTS) | stretch (security) | 4.19.194-3~deb9u1 | 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/54ffccbf053b5b6ca4f6e45094b942fab92a25fc
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2125