cve-2020-25285
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-09-13 17:28
Modified
2024-08-04 15:33
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8.8Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=17743798d81238ab13050e8e2833699b54e15467Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00025.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00032.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00034.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201009-0002/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/1303749848898904067Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4576-1/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4579-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8.8Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=17743798d81238ab13050e8e2833699b54e15467Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00025.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00032.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00034.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201009-0002/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/1303749848898904067Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4576-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4579-1/Third Party Advisory
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