CVE-2020-25285

Summary

CVECVE-2020-25285
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-09-13 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-04-28 18:32:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-362 | CWE-787 | CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-4576-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 2420-2] linux regression update MLIST lists.debian.org
grsecurity on Twitter: "Bug fixed in today's 4.14 kernel was fixed in #grsecurity 6 years ago as part of CONSTIFY: https://t.co/sTLcs2qfyk… " MISC twitter.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 2385-1] linux-4.19 security update MLIST lists.debian.org Third Party Advisory
cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8.8 MISC cdn.kernel.org Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
CVE-2020-25285 Linux Kernel Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com Third Party Advisory
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MISC git.kernel.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 2420-1] linux security update MLIST lists.debian.org
USN-4579-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159185 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for kernel (ELSA-2021-1578)
  • 198328 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities (USN-4912-1)
  • 239314 Red Hat Update for kernel-rt (RHSA-2021:1739)
  • 239339 Red Hat Update for kernel (RHSA-2021:1578)
  • 353100 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAC2012-2021-024
  • 353101 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kmod-mlx5 : ALAC2012-2021-025
  • 353102 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kmod-sfc : ALAC2012-2021-026
  • 353135 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-016
  • 377038 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0198)
  • 610372 Google Pixel Android October 2021 Security Patch Missing
  • 6140131 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for kernel (GHSA-3pwc-c3mh-xcv7)
  • 750376 OpenSUSE Security Update for RT kernel (openSUSE-SU-2021:0242-1)
  • 750533 OpenSUSE Security Update for the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2020:2112-1)
  • 750609 OpenSUSE Security Update for the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2020:1906-1)
  • 750738 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2020:3326-1)
  • 900076 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for kernel 5.4.91
  • 903239 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (3456)
  • 905874 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (3456-1)
  • 940354 AlmaLinux Security Update for kernel (ALSA-2021:1578)
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