CVE-2020-25285 Information

Description

A race condition between hugetlb sysctl handlers in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8.8 could be used by local attackers to corrupt memory cause a NULL pointer dereference or possibly have unspecified other impact aka CID-17743798d812.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8.8 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=17743798d81238ab13050e8e2833699b54e15467 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00025.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00032.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00034.html https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201009-0002/ https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/1303749848898904067 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4576-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4579-1/

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction Required

HIGH

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.4