CVE-2020-12114

Una condición de carrera en la función pivot_root en el archivo fs/namespace.c en el kernel de Linux versiones 4.4.x anteriores a la versión 4.4.221, versiones 4.9.x anteriores a la versión 4.9.221, versiones 4.14.x anteriores a la versión 4.14.178, versiones 4.19.x anteriores a 4.19.119, y versiones 5.x anteriores a la versión 5.3, permite a usuarios locales causar una denegación de servicio (pánico) al corromper un contador de referencia de punto de montaje.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s implementation of the pivot_root syscall. This flaw allows a local privileged user (root outside or root inside a privileged container) to exploit a race condition to manipulate the reference count of the root filesystem. To be able to abuse this flaw, the process or user calling pivot_root must have advanced permissions. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

It was discovered that the Marvell WiFi-Ex Driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate status lengths in messages received from an access point, leading to a buffer overflow. A physically proximate attacker controlling an access point could use this to construct messages that could possibly result in arbitrary code execution. It was discovered that memory contents previously stored in microarchitectural special registers after RDRAND, RDSEED, and SGX EGETKEY read operations on Intel client and Xeon E3 processors may be briefly exposed to processes on the same or different processor cores. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. Various other issues were also addressed.