CVE-2020-29372 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in do_madvise in mm/madvise.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6.8. There is a race condition between coredump operations and the IORING_OP_MADVISE implementation aka CID-bc0c4d1e176e.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.6.8 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2029 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bc0c4d1e176eeb614dc8734fc3ace34292771f11 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162117/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0075-1.html

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

4.7