cve-2020-25704
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-12-02 00:00
Modified
2024-08-04 15:40
Severity
Summary
A flaw memory leak in the Linux kernel performance monitoring subsystem was found in the way if using PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_FILTER. A local user could use this flaw to starve the resources causing denial of service.
References
SourceURLTags
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895961Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7bdb157cdebbf95a1cd94ed2e01b338714075d00Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00027.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/09/1Mailing List
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20220802-0003/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
VendorProduct
n/akernel
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