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CVE-2020-25669

Public on 2020-12-08
Modified on 2021-01-13
Description

A vulnerability was found in the Linux Kernel where the function sunkbd_reinit having been scheduled by sunkbd_interrupt before sunkbd being freed. Though the dangling pointer is set to NULL in sunkbd_disconnect, there is still an alias in sunkbd_reinit causing Use After Free.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.1
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2021-01-12 22:51 ALAS-2021-1461
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2020-12-08 20:55 ALAS2-2020-1566

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 4.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv3 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H