CVE-2020-29373

Summary

CVECVE-2020-29373
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-11-28 07:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-12-02 17:44:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in fs/io_uring.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6. It unsafely handles the root directory during path lookups, and thus a process inside a mount namespace can escape to unintended filesystem locations, aka CID-ff002b30181d.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-22

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.6 MISC cdn.kernel.org Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
2011 - project-zero - Project Zero - Monorail MISC bugs.chromium.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MISC git.kernel.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 174816 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 10 for SLE 15 SP2) (SUSE-SU-2021:0869-1)
  • 750376 OpenSUSE Security Update for RT kernel (openSUSE-SU-2021:0242-1)
  • 750434 OpenSUSE Security Update for the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2021:0060-1)
  • 900040 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for kernel 5.4.91
  • 903316 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (3626)
  • 905839 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (3626-1)
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