CVE-2020-25285
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 13, 2020
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 13, 2020
Description
A race condition between hugetlb sysctl handlers in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8.8 could be used by local attackers to corrupt memory, cause a NULL pointer dereference, or possibly have unspecified other impact, aka CID-17743798d812.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=17743798d81238ab13050e8e2833699b54e15467
- https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/1303749848898904067
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8.8
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200928 [SECURITY] [DLA 2385-1] linux-4.19 security updatemailing-list
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201009-0002/
- USN-4576-1vendor-advisory
- USN-4579-1vendor-advisory
- [debian-lts-announce] 20201030 [SECURITY] [DLA 2420-1] linux security updatemailing-list
- [debian-lts-announce] 20201031 [SECURITY] [DLA 2420-2] linux regression updatemailing-list
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