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CVE-2020-12652
medium
Description
The __mptctl_ioctl function in drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c in the Linux kernel before 5.4.14 allows local users to hold an incorrect lock during the ioctl operation and trigger a race condition, i.e., a "double fetch" vulnerability, aka CID-28d76df18f0a. NOTE: the vendor states "The security impact of this bug is not as bad as it could have been because these operations are all privileged and root already has enormous destructive power."
References
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4698
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200608-0001/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00013.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00012.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00011.html
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/28d76df18f0ad5bcf5fa48510b225f0ed262a99b
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.4.14
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00022.html