CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-25704
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-12-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
A flaw memory leak in the Linux kernel performance monitoring subsystem was found in the way if using PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_FILTER. A local user could use this flaw to starve the resources causing denial of service.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 5.9)
• linux linux kernel 5.10
• debian debian linux 9.0
• starwindsoftware command center
• starwindsoftware starwind hyperconverged appliance
• starwindsoftware starwind san \& nas v8r12
• starwindsoftware starwind virtual san v8
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895961 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7bdb157cdebbf95a1cd94ed2e01b338714075d00 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00027.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/09/1 Mailing List
- https://www.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20220802-0003/ Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895961 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7bdb157cdebbf95a1cd94ed2e01b338714075d00 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00027.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/09/1 Mailing List
- https://www.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20220802-0003/ Third Party Advisory