medium4.7
CVE-2020-29372
An issue was discovered in do_madvise in mm/madvise.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6.8.
Impact
An issue was discovered in do_madvise in mm/madvise.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6.8. There is a race condition between coredump operations and the IORING_OP_MADVISE implementation, aka CID-bc0c4d1e176e.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux Kernel | before 5.6.8 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | Versions 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 20.04 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162117/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0075-1.html
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2029
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.6.8
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bc0c4d1e176eeb614dc8734fc3ace34292771f11
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162117/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0075-1.html
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2029
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.6.8
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bc0c4d1e176eeb614dc8734fc3ace34292771f11
- https://project-zero.issues.chromium.org/issues/42451131