CVE-2020-12769: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.4.17 (fixed in 5.4.17)
• Netapp a700s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Cloud Backup: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Element Software: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h300e Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h300s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h410c Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h410s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h500e Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h500s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h610c Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h610s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h615c Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h700e Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h700s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Hci Compute Node Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Hci Management Node: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Solidfire: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Steelstore Cloud Integrated Storage: affected versions not specified
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only; version 15.2 only

Published 2020-05-09. Last modified 2026-10-08.