FKIE_CVE-2020-8991

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-02-14 05:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:27
Severity
2.3 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
vg_lookup in daemons/lvmetad/lvmetad-core.c in LVM2 2.02 mismanages memory, leading to an lvmetad memory leak, as demonstrated by running pvs. NOTE: RedHat disputes CVE-2020-8991 as not being a vulnerability since there’s no apparent route to either privilege escalation or to denial of service through the bug
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceware.org/git/?p=lvm2.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bcf9556b8fcd16ad8997f80cc92785f295c66701
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/git/?p=lvm2.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bcf9556b8fcd16ad8997f80cc92785f295c66701
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
redhat lvm2 2.02.00
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