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CVE-2020-29534

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.9.3.

Impact

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.9.3. io_uring takes a non-refcounted reference to the files_struct of the process that submitted a request, causing execve() to incorrectly optimize unshare_fd(), aka CID-0f2122045b94.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 5.1 before 5.8.18
from 5.9.0 before 5.9.3
Version 5.10

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