{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2020-12-04T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: locking inconsistency in drivers/tty/tty_io.c and drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c can lead to a read-after-free",
    "id" : "1906522",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1906522"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "4.4",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-667->CWE-416",
  "details" : [ "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.", "A locking inconsistency issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local user could use this flaw to read numerical value from memory after free." ],
  "statement" : "This flaw is rated as having Low impact (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7)  because of the need to have CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG privileges.\nThis flaw is rated as having Moderate (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8) impact because of the need to have CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG privileges. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 enabled unprivileged user/network namespaces by default which can be used to exercise this vulnerability.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2021-11-09T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:4140",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-348.rt7.130.el8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2021-11-09T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:4356",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-348.el8"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "impact" : "low"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel-alt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "impact" : "low"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-29660\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-29660" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2020-29660",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}