CVE-2020-12770
Moderate
CVE-2020-12770
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.6.11. sg_write lacks an sg_remove_request call in a certain failure case, aka CID-83c6f2390040.
Exploit probability
0.6%
Published
May 9, 2020
Required by
Not available
Last source change
April 16, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2020-12770
View original source
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.6.11. sg_write lacks an sg_remove_request call in a certain failure case, aka CID-83c6f2390040.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=83c6f2390040f188cc25b270b4befeb5628c1aee
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00012.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00013.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ES5C6ZCMALBEBMKNNCTBSLLSYGFZG3FF/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IO5XIQSRI747P4RVVTNX7TUPEOCF4OPU/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R54VC7B6MDYKP57AWC2HN7AUJYH62RKI/
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/4/13/870
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200608-0001/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4411-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4412-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4413-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4414-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4419-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4698
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4699