CVE-2020-9391 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 5.4 and 5.5 through 5.5.6 on the AArch64 architecture. It ignores the top byte in the address passed to the brk system call potentially moving the memory break downwards when the application expects it to move upwards aka CID-dcde237319e6. This has been observed to cause heap corruption with the GNU C Library malloc implementation.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/25/6 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1797052 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=dcde237319e626d1ec3c9d8b7613032f0fd4663a https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4LH35HOPBJIKYHYFXMBBM75DN75PZHZ/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200313-0003/

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