CVE-2020-10757 Information

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel in versions after 4.5-rc1 in the way mremap handled DAX Huge Pages. This flaw allows a local attacker with access to a DAX enabled storage to escalate their privileges on the system.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00022.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1842525 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5bfea2d9b17f1034a68147a8b03b9789af5700f9 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00012.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IEM47BXZJLODRH5YNNZSAQ2NVM63MYMC/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200702-0004/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4426-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4439-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4440-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4483-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4698 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4699 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/06/04/4

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8