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LIN1018-6928 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2020-29373

Created: Nov 29, 2020    Updated: Dec 18, 2020
Resolved Date: Dec 18, 2020
Found In Version: 10.18.44.1
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 18
Component/s: Kernel

Description

An 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.

CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) [CVE-2020-29373|https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-29373]
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