CVE-2020-9383

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 3.16 through 5.5.6. set_fdc in drivers/block/floppy.c leads to a wait_til_ready out-of-bounds read because the FDC index is not checked for errors before assigning it, aka CID-2e90ca68b0d2.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4698

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4346-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4345-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4344-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4342-1/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200313-0003/

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/2e90ca68b0d2f5548804f22f0dd61145516171e3

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=2f9ac30a54dc0181ddac3705cdcf4775d863c530

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00039.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3