CVE-2020-27815

Se encontró un fallo en el código del sistema de archivos JFS en el Kernel de Linux que permite que un atacante local con la capacidad de establecer atributos extendidos para poner en pánico al sistema, causando corrupción de memoria o una escalada de privilegios. La mayor amenaza de esta vulnerabilidad es la confidencialidad, la integridad y la disponibilidad del sistema

Daniele Antonioli, Nils Ole Tippenhauer, and Kasper Rasmussen discovered that legacy pairing and secure-connections pairing authentication in the Bluetooth protocol could allow an unauthenticated user to complete authentication without pairing credentials via adjacent access. A physically proximate attacker could use this to impersonate a previously paired Bluetooth device. Jay Shin discovered that the ext4 file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle directory access with broken indexing, leading to an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.