gsd-2020-25212
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:21
Details
A TOCTOU mismatch in the NFS client code in the Linux kernel before 5.8.3 could be used by local attackers to corrupt memory or possibly have unspecified other impact because a size check is in fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c instead of fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c, aka CID-b4487b935452.
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Aliases
CVE-2020-25212


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      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1739",
      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1578",
      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0878",
      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0760",
      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0526",
      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5441",
      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5437",
      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4279",
      "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-25212",
      "https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-25212.html",
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}


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