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CVE-2020-29660
- Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2020-12-09 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-416
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.
Affected products
- Brocade Fabric OS: all versions
- Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 32, 33
- Linux kernel: through 5.9.13
- NetApp 8300 Firmware: all versions
- NetApp 8700 Firmware: all versions
- NetApp A400 Firmware: all versions
- NetApp A700S Firmware: all versions
- Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: all versions
- NetApp H410C Firmware: all versions
- NetApp Solidfire Baseboard Management Controller Firmware: all versions
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164950/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0082-1.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/12/10/1
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c8bcd9c5be24fb9e6132e97da5a35e55a83e36b9
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00018.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00010.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BOB25SU6XUL4TNP7KB63WNZSYTIYFDPP/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MZ7OAKAEFAXQRGBZK4LYUWINCD3D2XCL/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0001/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4843
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164950/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0082-1.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/12/10/1
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c8bcd9c5be24fb9e6132e97da5a35e55a83e36b9
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