CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-25285

6.4 MEDIUM Published 2020-09-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-09-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-362, CWE-476, CWE-787

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 5.8.8) • debian debian linux 9.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 18.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 20.04

Related

Weakness · CWE (3)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References