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LIN9-10167 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2019-20908

Created: Jul 16, 2020    Updated: Jul 22, 2020
Resolved Date: Jul 22, 2020
Found In Version: 9.0.0.1
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 9
Component/s: Kernel

Description

An issue was discovered in drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c in the Linux kernel before 5.4. Incorrect access permissions for the efivar_ssdt ACPI variable could be used by attackers to bypass lockdown or secure boot restrictions, aka CID-1957a85b0032.

CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) [CVE-2019-20908|https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-20908]
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