CVE-2020-29372

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-29372
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-11-28 07:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-10-06 18:44:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-362

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 Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
2029 - project-zero - Project Zero - Monorail MISC bugs.chromium.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MISC git.kernel.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Kernel Live Patch Security Notice LSN-0075-1 ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.6.8 MISC cdn.kernel.org Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 900040 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for kernel 5.4.91
  • 903548 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (3624)
  • 906210 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (3624-1)
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