CVE-2020-25641 Information

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s implementation of biovecs in versions before 5.9-rc7. A zero-length biovec request issued by the block subsystem could cause the kernel to enter an infinite loop causing a denial of service. This flaw allows a local attacker with basic privileges to issue requests to a block device resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00021.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00042.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/10/06/9 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1881424 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7e24969022cbd61ddc586f14824fc205661bb124 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00032.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00034.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/4576-1/ https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/block/biovecs.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5