CVE-2020-29661

Public on 2020-12-09
Modified on 2021-01-26
Description

A locking vulnerability was found in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel in drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c. This flaw allows a local attacker to possibly corrupt memory or escalate privileges. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.8
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2021-01-26 00:11 ALAS-2021-1477
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2021-01-25 23:09 ALAS2-2021-1588
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.4 Extra kernel 2022-01-20 19:53 ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-019
Amazon Linux 2 - Livepatch Extra kernel-livepatch-4.14.200-155.322 2021-01-19 20:18 ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2021-031
Amazon Linux 2 - Livepatch Extra kernel-livepatch-4.14.203-156.332 2021-01-19 20:18 ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2021-032
Amazon Linux 2 - Livepatch Extra kernel-livepatch-4.14.209-160.335 2021-01-19 20:18 ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2021-033
Amazon Linux 2 - Livepatch Extra kernel-livepatch-4.14.209-160.339 2021-01-19 20:18 ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2021-034

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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