CVE-2020-12771: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.6.11. btree_gc_coalesce in drivers/md/bcache/btree.c has a deadlock if a coalescing operation fails.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 20.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 5.6.11
• 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 Bootstrap OS: 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
• Oracle SD-WAN Edge: version 8.2 only

Published 2020-05-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.