tiocspgrp()" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bug #1909486 reported by it0001
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linux (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

CVE 2020-29661 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2020-29661

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.

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it0001 (it0001-escrypt)
description: updated
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Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (cascardo) wrote :

This is CVE-2020-29661, prioritized as a Medium.

Steve Beattie (sbeattie)
information type: Private Security → Public Security
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
description: updated
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