CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-27825

5.7 MEDIUM Published 2020-12-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-12-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

A use-after-free flaw was found in kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c in Linux kernel (before 5.10-rc1). There was a race problem in trace_open and resize of cpu buffer running parallely on different cpus, may cause a denial of service problem (DOS). This flaw could even allow a local attacker with special user privilege to a kernel information leak threat.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 5.10 • redhat enterprise linux 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux 8.0 • redhat enterprise mrg 2.0 • debian debian linux 9.0 • debian debian linux 10.0 • netapp cloud backup • netapp solidfire baseboard management controller firmware • netapp h410c firmware

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References