Medium severity · published May 9, 2020
CVE-2020-12769
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.4.17
5.5
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.4.17. drivers/spi/spi-dw.c allows attackers to cause a panic via concurrent calls to dw_spi_irq and dw_spi_transfer_one, aka CID-19b61392c5a8.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 51% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kernel · Linux
before 5.4.17 · source: NVD
AF
A700s Firmware · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
AI
Active IQ Unified Manager · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
CB
Cloud Backup · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
ES
Element Software · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
HF
H300e Firmware · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
HF
H300s Firmware · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
HF
H410c Firmware · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
HF
H410s Firmware · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
HF
H500e Firmware · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
HF
H500s Firmware · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12769
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12769
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00022.html
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00008.html
Mailing List
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.4.17
Exploit
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=19b61392c5a852b4e8a0bf35aecb969983c5932d
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00011.html
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00013.html
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