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CVE-2020-12770

Public on 2020-05-09
Modified on 2020-06-03
Description

A vulnerability was found in sg_write in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the SCSI generic (sg) driver subsystem. This flaw allows an attacker with local access and special user or root privileges to cause a denial of service if the allocated list is not cleaned with an invalid (Sg_fd * sfp) pointer at the time of failure, also possibly causing a kernel internal information leak problem.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.7
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2020-06-01 12:24 ALAS-2020-1377
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2020-06-01 22:37 ALAS2-2020-1431
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.4 Extra kernel 2022-01-20 19:20 ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-012

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H