CVE-2020-12769 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2020-12769?

CVE-2020-12769 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 9 May 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-662

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-12769?

It affects 23 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel, Netapp A700s Firmware, Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager, Netapp Cloud Backup and 17 more.

How do I fix CVE-2020-12769?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2020-12769 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-12769 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-12769, GHSA-f25w-4h6f-frg3, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-12769.