CVE-2020-12769

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 5.4.17 - Denial of Service via Concurrent SPI Transfer Calls

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (9)

Core 9
Core References
Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Technical Description x_refsource_confirm
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/3/559
Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.4.17
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200608-0001/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00011.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00013.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00022.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4391-1/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00008.html

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0065
EPSS Percentile 46.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-662
Status published
Products (25)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
debian/debian_linux 8.0
linux/linux_kernel < 5.4.17
netapp/a700s_firmware
netapp/active_iq_unified_manager
netapp/cloud_backup
netapp/element_software
netapp/h300e_firmware
netapp/h300s_firmware
... and 15 more
Published May 09, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026