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FKIE_CVE-2020-29369

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-11-28 07:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:11

Severity

7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

An issue was discovered in mm/mmap.c in the Linux kernel before 5.7.11. There is a race condition between certain expand functions (expand_downwards and expand_upwards) and page-table free operations from an munmap call, aka CID-246c320a8cfe.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/10/6	Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/19/8	Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2056	Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.7.11	Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=246c320a8cfe0b11d81a4af38fa9985ef0cc9a4c	Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0001/	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/10/6	Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/19/8	Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2056	Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.7.11	Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=246c320a8cfe0b11d81a4af38fa9985ef0cc9a4c	Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0001/	Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
netapp	hci_management_node	-
netapp	solidfire	-
netapp	hci_compute_node	-
netapp	hci_storage_node	-

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CVE-2020-29369 (GCVE-0-2020-29369)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-28 06:20 – Updated: 2024-08-04 16:48

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

6 references

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https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/t…	x_refsource_MISC
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/d…	x_refsource_MISC
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2021011…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/10/6	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/19/8	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

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CVE-2020-29369 (GCVE-0-2020-29369)

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