CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-27815

7.8 HIGH Published 2021-05-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-05-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.1 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119, CWE-787

Description

A flaw was found in the JFS filesystem code in the Linux Kernel which allows a local attacker with the ability to set extended attributes to panic the system, causing memory corruption or escalating privileges. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (> 4.4.249) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.9.249) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.213) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.164) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.86) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.4) • debian debian linux 9.0 • debian debian linux 10.0 • netapp h300s firmware • netapp h500s firmware • netapp h700s firmware • netapp h300e firmware • netapp h500e firmware • netapp h700e firmware • netapp h410s firmware • netapp h410c firmware • netapp aff a250 firmware • netapp fas500f firmware

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References