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CVE-2020-25285

CVSS v3.1 6.4 (Medium)
64% Progress
CVSS v2.0 4.4 (Medium)
44% Progress
EPSS 0.04 % (5th)
0.04% Progress
Affected Products 3
Advisories 33
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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.

Weaknesses
CWE-362
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
CWE-476
NULL Pointer Dereference
CWE-787
Out-of-bounds Write
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
MITRE
Published Date
2020-09-13 18:15:09
(4 years ago)
Updated Date
2022-04-28 18:32:51
(2 years ago)

Affected Products

Canonical

Debian

Linux

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel prior 5.8.8 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel < 5.8.8

Configuration #2

    CPE23 From Up To
  Debian Linux 9.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Configuration #3

    CPE23 From Up To
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts