MEDIUM 6.4 Microsoft

CVE-2020-10690

There is a use-after-free in kernel versions before 5.5 due to a race condition between the release of ptp_clock and cdev while resource deallocation. When a (high privileged) process allocates a ptp device file (like /dev/ptpX) and voluntarily goes to sleep. During this time if the underlying device is removed it can cause an exploitable condition as the process wakes up to terminate and clean all attached files. The system crashes due to the cdev structure being invalid (as already freed) which is pointed to by the inode.

Microsoft Security Update 2020-May: There is a use-after-free in kernel versions before 5.5 due to a race condition between the release of ptp_clock and cdev while resource deallocation. When a (high privileged) process allocates a ptp device file (like /dev/ptpX) and voluntarily goes to sleep. During this time if the underlying device is removed it can cause an exploitable condition as the process wakes up to terminate and clean all attached files. The system crashes due to the cdev structure being invalid (as already freed) which is pointed to by the inode.

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Published: 2020-05-12 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-08-20
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.4 was published on 2020-05-12 via Microsoft. Affected: cm1 kernel 5.4.91-3 on CBL Mariner 1.0.
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