{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2020-03-21T10:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: race condition between the VT_DISALLOCATE ioctl and closing/opening of ttys, causing a use-after-free in con_shutdown().",
    "id" : "2112688",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2112688"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.1",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-416",
  "details" : [ "A race condition in the Linux kernel before 5.6.2 between the VT_DISALLOCATE ioctl and closing/opening of ttys could lead to a use-after-free.", "A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s Virtual Terminal subsystem in how a user calls the VT_DISALLOCATE ioctl during the closing/opening of ttys. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2021-05-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:1578",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-305.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" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-36557\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36557\nhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ca4463bf8438b403596edd0ec961ca0d4fbe0220" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2020-36557",
  "csaw" : false
}