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Rewterz Threat Advisory – CVE-2020-12114 – Linux Kernel Denial of Service Vulnerability

May 6, 2020

Severity

Medium

Analysis Summary

Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a pivot_root race condition in fs/namespace.c. By corrupting a mountpoint reference counter, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a system panic.

Impact

Denial of service

Affected Vendors

Linux

Affected Products

Linux Kernel 4.4.22
Linux Kernel 5.2
Linux Kernel 4.9.22
Linux Kernel 4.14.177
Linux Kernel 4.19.118

Remediation

Refer to Linux Kernel GIT Repository for upgraded patch.https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=v4.19.119&id=f511dc75d22e0c000fc70b54f670c2c17f5fba9a 
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